Global Health Journalism that Informs Decisions
On 22 May, as first reported by The New York Times, the United States government announced that it would send U.S. citizens exposed to the Ebola virus...
The rate of deliveries in level 4 and 5 hospitals—health facilities designed and equipped to handle maternal emergencies—has decreased by more than 87...
The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Kenya has finalised plans to rotate first-line malaria treatments, as growing evidence shows that the country’s most...
Preventing more than 5,000 mothers from dying every year in childbirth is not difficult, says Issak Bashir, a medic and Head of Family Health in Kenya...
As she stepped out of the house to do her laundry, Millicent Achieng left her seven-year-old boy playing with his friends in Nyalenda Estate in Kisumu...
For nearly four decades, Kenya has relied on the five-year Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to guide policymakers, researchers, and donors in...
The US government, Kenya’s biggest financier for family planning, has reduced global health funding in its next year’s budget by another $4.3 billion...
The funding cuts by the United States Government (USG) to Kenya are brutal: from hundreds of millions of dollars to almost nothing. New analysis from...
Kenya has launched an urgent push to curb maternal and newborn deaths after identifying 26 high-burden counties where most deaths occur. A document...
Michael Oluoch had always rubbished his cough as normal because of the dust he inhales at his work as a manual labourer on construction sites. In...
The pain began slowly: a strange, interminable fatigue, then aching and swelling of the legs. The pain grew, forcing her to go to Kajiado County...
KIBERA, NAIROBI — She walks down an open sewer, holding a blue lab specimen transport box, her straight-cut trousers slipped inside her black rubber...
