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In its current strategy , the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)—the world’s largest provider of sexual and reproductive health programmes—set aside $35.6 million for Kenya’s reproductive health services. The money, equivalent to Ksh 4.2 billion, was to be used between 2022 and 2026 to help...
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 from the government's website for “making U.S. foreign assistance data available to the public” has revealed. The monies that the United States...
Days after Kenya signed a $2.5 billion health deal with the US, under a new plan named “ America First Global Health Strategy ,” confusion and panic are spreading through Kenya’s health system. County directors of health said they were summoned to a meeting in Nairobi with almost no notice, asked to...
After the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the global guidelines for diagnosing and treating excessive bleeding, the world’s deadliest complication after childbirth, the Ministry of Health of Kenya will update the country’s guidelines “as soon as possible”. Dr Issak Bashir, Kenya’s Head of...
All U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) staff have been placed on administrative leave globally, in a brief message posted on the website marking the end of the agency. There is uproar, concern, and anxiety over the closure of development circles, like the impending shutdown of USAID...
It was the blood-curdling wailing of a woman grieving the death of her son that finally put fear into Lucy Nauru’s heart. For more than a week, 24-year-old Lucy and her son slept next to the now-grieving mother at Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Turkana County, Kenya. “The mother’s pain, as I saw...