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Defrontera’s mission is to produce independent, explanatory health journalism that connects evidence to policy and helps communities make sense of complex issues. Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is one of many tools we use to strengthen this mission. It never replaces our reporters. We do not use A.I...
We are proud to announce that Anne Mawathe, one of Africa’s most prolific global health journalists and editorial leaders, has officially joined Defrontera as our Editor-in-Chief. Anne brings more than two decades of experience and a stellar résumé in journalism. She served as Africa’s Visual...
As a mother of four, Phoebe Adhiambo prides herself on having conquered the jitters of new motherhood. Not every discomfort sends her into panic or rushing to hospital. But when her five-year-old daughter Ariel started convulsing one evening in their island village of K’akiimba, Homa Bay County, she...
When more than 10,000 experts gathered in Cape Town in September for the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)—the world’s largest maternal health conference—an urgent message came from Nairobi. At Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), the country’s biggest referral centre...
The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is the holy grail that guides policymakers, researchers, and donors in determining and designing health priority interventions in Kenya. But the latest DHS, released two years ago, contains a seemingly innocuous but very significant omission: maternal...