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All U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) staff have been placed on administrative leave globally, in a brief message posted on the...

Financing

Tuesday 28 January 2025

In numbers: Here’s what Trump’s Executive Orders will cost Kenya

In the last two decades, Kenya has received $13.3 billion—about KES 1.7 trillion—from the United States of America, a Defrontera analysis of the data...

Public Health

Monday 9 December 2024

To the locals, it is the county with a health system that cannot fully support its HIV patients.

Whenever Dorcas Gichinga needs to get to her local hospital to collect her HIV medication, she is faced with a set of hard choices: walk for three...

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Public Health

Monday 9 December 2024

Medicine is why Dan Odera, 88, is one of Kenya’s oldest HIV patients. Now dwindling funding threatens the medicine’s free supply

Coils of smoke rise lazily from a charcoal earth kiln and hover above the trees that dot the homestead of Dan Odera in Sinaga village, Siaya County...

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Newborn & Child

Sunday 29 January 2023

Is this the friendliest village for babies in Kenya?

Peter Kimoi is at the local dispensary at Kasei Location In West Pokot County, but neither he nor his family is sick. He's the assistant chief of...

A woman milking a goat, with a herd of goats looking on in the background

Food Systems

Saturday 15 October 2022

'Super goats' enrich and feed women in arid Kenya

West Pokot has had the highest rate of malnutrition in Kenya, but goat farming and health education through support groups for mothers are making a dent, leading not just to healthier families, but also to better livelihoods.