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Speak with one voice
artner states of Africa’s largest market bloc Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) are almost concluding a master plan that will see them harmonise biosafety and bio-technology laws…
WHO names Kenya as safe haven for fake drug cartels
By GEORGE OMONDI AND MWANGI MUIRURI Kenya is a safe haven for a cartel that has choked the domestic market with counterfeit and untested medicine smuggled through informal channels, the…
Overpriced Medicines Sabotage Malaria War
Adapted from Daily Nation Gatonye Gathura airobi — Pharmacists across the country are making massive profits from highly subsidised malaria drugs that are meant to make the treatment more accessible…
Slum dwellers turn to solar energy in new strategy to treat drinking water
Adapted from Daily Nation. Clear water bottles line the rusty iron sheet roofs of several houses in the sprawling Kibera slums in Nairobi. A cursory glance may not reveal much,…
Laws must be enforced
Adapted from Business Daily Africa Inability to follow up legislation with decisive action is once again watering down Kenya’s intention to fight habits that endanger the environment and human health…
Candidate gives birth moments before exams
Adapted from Kenya Broadcasting Corporation 746,409 candidates sat for their first papers, Mathematics, English Language and Composition on Tuesday as this year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations – KCPE…
Public hospitals ordered to free mothers
Adapted from: Capital FM BY JUDIE KABERIA NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 9 – Public Health and Sanitation Minister Beth Mugo on Tuesday directed public health centres countrywide to release all women…
INTERVIEW-UPDATE 1-Mother-baby HIV box targets transmission
Adapted from Reuters 9/11/2010 * Colour-coded pack easy to use for mothers who can’t read * Designed as a “one stop shop” to prevent HIV transmission * UNICEF’s $8 mln…
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