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Our mission A transparent, innovative, inclusive journalism in Africa Understandably, Africans would complain that the international media represents them unfairly in news coverage because headlines are powerful. For instance, headlines influence how the world responds to giving aid to the most...

Public Health

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, in western Kenya. In the background, the popular River Yala roars westward. “When I came here, this was a flood area,” Odera recalls. “People said I...

Public Health

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 hours from her home in Majembeni town to Mpeketoni Sub-County Hospital in the coastal county of Lamu in Kenya; walk one way for about an hour and then...

Mother and Child

REVEALED: Counties in Kenya where giving birth is a life or death affair for women

Subscribe to The Evidence to know the latest scientific developments that could affect childbirth. Siaya, Tana River, Garissa and Isiolo are the deadliest counties in Kenya for women giving birth in health facilities, a Ministry of Health analysis has shown. These counties recorded the highest...

Mother and Child

Inside "Protocol" That Helped a Kenyan County Eliminate Maternal Deaths from Postpartum Bleeding

VIDEO: On January 3, 2024, Jackline Kioko, a mother from Kavungi village in Makueni County, went into labour, expecting her fifth child. The fear that gripped the mother of four was beyond normal maternal angst that other women experience. Death, the possibility of it, always hung around Jackline in...

Public Health

In Turkana, livestock and vaccines walk hand in hand

The people of Turkana, a county in northern Kenya, deeply value their livestock. They will do anything to protect their cattle, goats, camels and sheep from disease and the consequences of drought. Understanding this cultural dynamic, the county’s Health Department is now running joint clinics — for...