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Defrontera reports on healthcare in Kenya, the innovation and politics, and how it all affects you. Subscribe to our newsletter, The Evidence, for updates. Dr Stephen Mwatha, who heads partnerships at Makueni County, joined his team to celebrate a rare milestone: in May 2025, the county had not...
The Global Fund will give Kenya the funds to purchase lenacapavir—an injection given twice a year to people who are HIV-negative to prevent infection and for which the World Health Organization (WHO) has just released guidelines and recommendations —but the supplies will not be enough, Defrontera...
After years of abuse, donors from Europe and the United States have scrapped allowances and per diems for government employees attending events associated with projects they support as part of a joint initiative to curb wasteful expenditure in donor-funded projects. Defrontera can now reveal that...
Measles, a virus labelled as “the world’s most contagious” by health experts, is endemic in Kenya—meaning it is now part of the diseases that regularly occur in the country—but it is making a deadly comeback amid funding cuts for vaccines, in what could add further strain to the disease burden of...
At the beginning of the year, Kenya — a country with a national HIV prevalence of 3.3% — had plans to provide HIV care and treatment for the year 2025. Documents that Defrontera has exclusively obtained show that the National Syndemic Diseases Control Council (NSDCC), the state corporation that co...
Kenya is staring at a debilitating health funding crisis after members of parliament cut the Ministry of Health’s budget by 36% at a time when the nation is facing a massive funding gap left by the withdrawal of U.S. Government funding for key programmes. Documents obtained by Defrontera show that...