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The hidden cost of unemployment: Depression and anxiety among young men
Fear of being seen as weak is driving young men away from…
Why footballers are one injury away from poverty, debts & broken families
“For six months, porridge prepared on a big sufuria (cooking pot) was my breakfast,…
Grabbed, stalled, forgotten: How Nairobi is losing its crucial clinics
From Parklands to Lucky Summer to Pumwani, the story is the same:…
Born tiny & cold: How Ksh50 handmade hats, socks are saving preterm babies
A women's knitting group in Kilifi County is doing what health budgets failed…
Sun, soil and scalpel: How this Kenyan hospital powers, feeds itself, produces own oxygen
From a solar-powered oxygen plant to a farm that feeds the wards,…
Seaweed sanitary pads: How Malawian innovator found answers to period poverty in the ocean
“Kenya borders an ocean with seaweed often treated as waste,” says innovator…
Sisters, stories & science: How Nigerian researcher is bringing STI and HIV care closer to women, girls
Dr Airat Bakare watched antiretroviral drugs scar fertility. Now she’s walking into schools with…
Treating cough, not the cry: How Kenya’s TB patients cope with isolation, panic attacks, economic stress
Depression and suicidal thoughts haunt thousands of TB patients during the six…
EXCLUSIVE | From ambulance bay to isolation ward: Inside Kenyatta National Hospital’s ‘Ebola Unit’
Treating Ebola is not simply a matter of isolation. The disease can…
