Africa’s Lake Victoria is the world’s second largest freshwater lake and its largest tropical lake. This awe-inspiring ecosystem supports a stunning variety of bird, aquatic and animal species. Unfortunately, the same ecosystem is also an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes that carry malaria.
Kenya this week joins the world to commemorate the African Vaccination week (World Immunization Week) as well as the World Malaria Day on April 25, 2023.
Since October 2022, Kenya’s arid northern region has been affected by a cholera outbreak triggered by the impact of a prolonged and severe drought. The country has recorded more than 7800 cases and 122 deaths as of 26 March 2023.
Kenya piloted a community-based cervical cancer screening in 2021 using the human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing to explore ways of effectively scaling up this type of testing across the country.
In Marsabit County, in northern Kenya, communities are fleeing from the worst drought in 40 years, and the food insecurity that it has triggered. It is one of the eight counties that comprise Kenya’s arid and semi-arid region.
In a previous stint as a chemistry teacher Dr Gladys Mwiti could not help but notice flagging performance among her students. She would later discover that the underachievement was largely due to unresolved trauma from poverty, domestic violence and abuse.
Reginald Omulo, a farmer in Migori County, Kenya, noticed that the tobacco farming his community practiced was affecting families’ health and well-being.
12-year-old Christine Kisianan lives in a remote village in Kajiado County, one of the regions in Kenya most affected by the greater Horn of Africa drought, which is in its fourth year.
In 2018, 60-year-old James Kimeu Mulei suffered a badly broken ankle that left him unable to walk after a violent attack. A few years previously, this story could well have ended with a permanent injury that restricted Mulei’s ability to work and live a full life.
Dr Francis Manyinza, a senior clinician at the Migori County Referral Hospital in southwestern Kenya, wasn’t surprised when lifelong tobacco farmer Petalis Ouma sought medical care for his chronic cough and ever-worsening chest pains.
