Public Health

Defrontera covers the diseases shaping lives across Kenya and Africa — from malaria, HIV, TB and neglected tropical diseases to antimicrobial resistance, non-communicable conditions, vaccination systems and the rise of AI-driven diagnostics, surveillance and digital epidemiology, separating evidence from hype and policy from promise.

Public Health
Monday 9 December 2024

To the locals, it is the county with a health system that cannot fully support its HIV patients.

Whenever Dorcas Gichinga needs to get to her local hospital to collect her HIV medication, she is faced with a set of hard choices: walk for three...
Public Health
Monday 9 December 2024

Medicine is why Dan Odera, 88, is one of Kenya’s oldest HIV patients. Now dwindling funding threatens the medicine’s free supply

Coils of smoke rise lazily from a charcoal earth kiln and hover above the trees that dot the homestead of Dan Odera in Sinaga village, Siaya County...

To the locals, it is the county with a health system that cannot fully support its HIV patients.

Medicine is why Dan Odera, 88, is one of Kenya’s oldest HIV patients. Now dwindling funding threatens the medicine’s free supply