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Mandera centres to reduce child deaths
The Mandera government yesterday launched two life-saving centres to cut the county’s record infant mortality. The county has the world’s highest infant mortality rate, with 3,795 deaths recorded... Read more
Most prostitutes are in Nairobi
There are over 133,675 female sex workers in Kenya, with significant regional variations from a high of 29,494 in Nairobi to a low of 2,030 in the northeast, according to estimates by the ministry... Read more
Kenyan support centre offers care, hope to refugees from South Sudan
Every once in a while, Joyce Dabor is jolted from sleep by memories of the day she was separated from her children. It was the day they finally escaped the bloody conflict in South Sudan. Ms. Dabor... Read more
Kenya Cannot Rise If Its Women Are Left Behind
Opinion piece by Ms Zebib Kavuma & Siddharth Chatterjee Consider this. A young girl called Amina Mohamed who is the 8th of 9 children, from a modest Muslim home in Kakamega County in Kenya was... Read more
20 Mombasa women to get free fistula surgery
Women suffering from obstetric fistula at the Coast will benefit from free reconstructive surgery at the Coast General Hospital (CGH). Twenty women will benefit from the initial surgeries, which... Read more
Private Sector Can Help In Healthcare
Opinion piece by Dr Nicholas Muraguri and Siddarth Chatterjee Although Kenya has overall made tremendous progress in improving maternal health, some sub-regions remain among the 10 most risky places... Read more
‘No amount of money can buy justice’
MTWAPA, Kenya – Mtwapa, a town north-east of Mombasa in the direction of Malindi, is known for its night life. Here you will find non-stop parties, day and night. But as 24-year old paralegal Joshua... Read more
Muslims urged to embrace family planning as way of spacing their children
The Ministry of Health and the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) have started a family planning programme that targets communities in Malindi and Kilifi County which are predominantly Muslim.... Read more
Slowly, but surely tide turning on Female Genital Mutilation
Opinion piece by Robert F. Godec and Siddharth Chatterjee Every year, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) scars thousands of young women and girls in Kenya physically and emotionally, for life. As... Read more
New lab for demographic dividend in Africa
An Africa Demographic Dividend Lab is to be established to support countries on the continent to realize a demographic dividend. This follows Africa's first regional knowledge sharing meeting, hosted... Read more