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The rate of deliveries in level 4 and 5 hospitals—health facilities designed and equipped to handle maternal emergencies—has decreased by more than 87...
For nearly four decades, Kenya has relied on the five-year Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to guide policymakers, researchers, and donors in...
The funding cuts by the United States Government (USG) to Kenya are brutal: from hundreds of millions of dollars to almost nothing. New analysis from...
In its current strategy , the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)—the world’s largest provider of sexual and reproductive health programmes—set...
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...
Earlier this year, a quiet administrative order from Washington reached Nairobi and landed with the weight of a blow. The United States government had...
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After years of abuse, donors from Europe and the United States have scrapped allowances and per diems for government employees attending events...
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...
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...
All U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) staff have been placed on administrative leave globally, in a brief message posted on the...
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...
