List/Grid Monthly Archives: May 2011
Life Is An Uphill Task As a Cancer Patient
Source: Nairobi Star By: Jerry Okungu For the readers who follow this column, let me apologize profusely for having let you down last week. On the Monday after I had…
KENYA FACING A SHORTAGE OF REHABS
Source: Nairobi Star By: Nelly Gitau Sunday, 29 May 2011 Most drug addicts willing to undergo rehabilitation are locked out because a majority of drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation facilities…
Kenya short of 66,000 health staff
Source: Daily Nation By STELLA CHERONO Posted Sunday, May 29 2011 at 21:38 Kenya is short of 66,000 health workers, according to chief nursing officer Chris Rakuom.“Our public and private…
Kenya to launch new anti-HIV effort that targets women
Source: The East Africa By CHRISTABEL LIGAMI, Special Correspondent KENYA IS set to unveil a new medical compound that block HIV transmission in women and young girls after the successful…
Africans are dying for life-saving drugs
Source: Victoria Times Colonist By Marc And Craig Kielburger, We build schools in Kenyan villages where teachers die, but their students refuse to name the cause because of its potent…
Less Than Half of Nation’s Women Give Birth in Hospital
Source: Daily Nation Less than half of pregnant women are seeking delivery services in hospitals greatly putting their lives and those of unborn babies in danger. Only two in every…
Wanjiru died of blunt injury to head
Source: Capital FM BY BERNARD MOMANYI NAIROBI, Kenya, May 27 – A post-mortem examination done on the body of fallen Olympic marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru shows he died of a…
Basing Care Reforms on Evidence: The Kenya Health Sector Costing Model
BMC Health Services Research 2011, By:Steffen Flessa,Michael Moeller,Tim Ensor,Klaus Hornetz Abstract (provisional) Background The Government of the Republic of Kenya is in the process of implementing health care reforms. However,…
Turkana Lodwar Clinic First Quarter Progress Report
Source: Real Medicine Foundation May 25, 2011 by Derrick Lowoto and Rebekah Bartsch Project Goal: To improve the delivery of primary Health Care Services within the Turkana Drought Region in…
Underage Abuse of Alcohol On the Rise
Source: Nairobi Star Nelly Gitau 27 May 2011 About 20 percent of an estimated 10 million school children are abusing alcohol and cigarettes. 12.7 percent boys and 6.5 percent girls…
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