Stanley Njihia

33 Articles

Adolescent antenatal care: Where Kenya’s youngest mothers are under 14 years

Kenya recorded 235,938 adolescent pregnancies in 2025. Behind that number are girls…

Five battles, one crisis: What the infectious diseases scoreboard tells us about the world’s health 

New WHO data shows that an estimated 1.3 million people acquired HIV in 2024,…

Private Health Insurance in Kenya: Same ward, same procedure, different prices 

Kenya's private medical insurance sector paid out more in claims than it…

Half a century of care: How US funding shaped Kenya’s health systems 

Over 50 years and more than $8 billion (Ksh1.04 Trillion), the United States…

The Pandemic’s True Toll: Covid-19 caused 22.1 million deaths, three times what was reported

A new WHO report lays bare the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic’s hidden mortality and…

Ebola Timeline: This virus has made DRC home for 50 years

Seventeen outbreaks. 50 years. Two strains. The DRC has lost more people…

Behind closed doors: How Kenya’s gender-based violence is hiding in plain sight 

New data shows moderate physical violence figures masking severe intimate partner violence…

Ebola in Numbers: Tracking the Bundibugyo Outbreak

A rare Ebola species with no vaccine and no approved treatment is…

Wanted abroad, wasted at home: The making of Kenya’s nursing exodus 

Kenya just overtook Canada as the second-largest source of US-bound nurses.  But ironically, countries…

Same country, different worlds: Kenya’s fertility divide in numbers 

In Kenya, a woman's reproductive life is shaped less by personal choice…

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