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Kenya has completely run out of family planning commodities, raising fears about increased unintended pregnancies and HIV infections in the country that the contraceptives prevent. The shortage comes as international donors like USAID, who had funded Kenya’s family planning programme in its entirety...
Joel Owino, 52, says his body is fading away, partly due to his two-year battle with tuberculosis (TB). Mr. Owino, who was born in Simenya village in Siaya County in western Kenya, says he was first diagnosed with TB in 2023. He diligently took the medication for six months as guided by the...
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 Referral Hospital. At the facility, Mary Njogu received a diagnosis that sounded like a death sentence: she had tuberculosis. The news hit her like a...
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 January this year, the cough persisted, with every whoop feeling like his chest would come out. He went to Tabitha Medical Centre near his house in Kibera...
Kenya has begun to rollout a breakthrough drug for HIV prevention. The move would be a game changer in the country’s battle against HIV, health professionals say, but testing and financing bottlenecks could put the brakes on the successful rolling out of the drug across the country. The drug is...
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, because “it is not a money issue; it is a mindset issue.” In April last year, Dr Bashir told Defrontera that he received a confidential tip about a...