Health Crisis Emerges Amid Kenya InstabilityANDREA SEABROOK
Kenya, like other countries in Africa suffering under the AIDS pandemic, has utilized a number of strategies to combat the disease, including drug therapy. Some drug companies lowered their prices in Kenya by more than half in the early 21st century, but this was not enough to make drugs ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Ministry of Health (redirected fromHealth Ministry) The Ministry of Health was the first health body in the UK that could be properly regarded as a department of government. It was created by the Ministry of...
A country of approximately 37 million people, Kenya has struggled to build a health system that can effectively deliver quality health services to its population. Access to health care varies widely throughout the country and is determined on numerous factors, though in particular, major divides exi...
Kenya is on the cusp of a transformative era in healthcare with the ongoing implementation of the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF). The Social Health Authority (SHA) is poised to replace the decades-old National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), which has been marre...
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The health sector has always been in crisis. Successive govts. have always bowed down to unreasonable GMOA demands. Not only the GMOA scuppered private medical education, they themselves, by large, are not paying their debt to society. It is this trade union, whose members have benefitted ...
Kisumu has shown a rising HIV prevalence over the past sentinel surveillance surveys, and most new infections are occurring among youth. We conducted a qualitative study to explore risk situations that can explain the high HIV prevalence among youth in Kisumu town, Kenya ...
They are often the first line of response in a health crisis and are at times the only link between patients and primary health facilities. Although their work is crucial to improving health outcomes in communities across Kenya, they have, until now, carried...
The state of mental health in Kenya. Frankly, things are not good. People are suffering in silence. The situation is reaching a crisis. It is the case globally. Suicides are on the rise, and 80 percent of the time these are associated with depression. The problem is much bigger if...