Kenyans willing to pay for COVID 19 test -KEMRI
Many Kenyans are willing to pay for a COVID 19 test at private chemists, reports Kenya Medical Research Institute -KEMRI. Up to 90 percent of […]
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Alarm over growing potbellies in Kenya school children
The number of overweight and obese school children in urban Kenya is worrying with a significant number developing abdominal obesity or pot bellies. About […]
COVID 19 patients with infectious diseases at high risk of death – Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi
Critically ill COVID 19 patients with additional infectious diseases are at a higher risk of death, reports Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Such patients, the […]
Kenya women paying up to KES500 bribes for ‘free’ coil
Poor women in Kenya are paying up to KES500 in bribes, a small fortune, to be inserted with the family planning coil in public hospitals. […]
Poor quality, illegal antibiotic (cotrimoxazole) selling in Nairobi
About a third of the key antibiotic cotrimoxazole suspension selling in Nairobi pharmacies are of poor quality. Forty per cent are also not retained with […]
Kenya approves largest Covid 19 vaccine human trials
Kenya has approved what may be the largest Covid 19 vaccine study in Africa in terms of regional coverage and diversity. The study split into […]
Kenya’s oldest hospital (Kenyatta) tops in Facebook use
The 120-year-old Kenyatta National Hospital has proven age is just a number by emerging top in Facebook presence. It also emerges that cancer and heart […]
Why Kenya women cannot yet eat tastiest meats
Despite significant gender gains, many women in metropolitan Nairobi cannot yet access some of the tastiest meat cuts that largely remain a male preserve. For […]
200 Kenyans volunteer in controversial chloroquine for Covid prevention trials
Two hundred of a targeted 1,600 Kenyans are participating in a global study testing whether the drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can prevent Covid 19 infection. […]
US CDC confirms Kenya inflated male circumcision data
A fact-checking study by the US CDC has confirmed as false previous data claiming ridiculously high male circumcision rates in Kenya’s HIV control programme. The […]