Empty wards, full pockets: How looted millions drained a county’s healthcare
Former Migori Governor Okoth Obado embezzled Ksh428.6 million, which could have financed essential drugs,…
Inside Kenya’s bold plan to address floods, drought, climate disasters
The climate strategy has linked the rising burden of vector-borne diseases, food…
Antibiotic resistance threatening health globally, new report finds
Low- and middle-income countries bear the heaviest burden of antimicrobial resistance due…
Concrete Childhood: How missing playgrounds in schools stunt children’s health
For games and sports, the 4,600 pupils at Mwiki Primary School use…
Too Many Pupils, Too Little Space: How overcrowded schools endanger children
Overcrowding has led to stampede fatalities besides hospitalisations after diarrhoeal outbreaks. But…
Gates Foundation in life-saving innovations to boost women’s health
The calibrated drape, for instance, is being used in Makueni County as…
Night Shift Nightmare: Admitted for care, dead by dawn – who’s hunting hospital patients?
The bandits walked into the hospital, their weapons concealed, took out guns…
Smoke, Screams & Scars: How violent protests affect your health
We treated protesters with bullet and stab wounds to their faces and…
From Memes to Medicine: Rwanda’s AI saving mums, babies
In South Africa, HIV self-testing is via WhatsApp chatbot—no clinic, no awkwardness,…
Trust on the Line: What happens when care and safety don’t align in our hospitals?
Despite enhanced security efforts, hospitals continue to be vulnerable targets for criminals—facing…
