List/Grid Monthly Archives: September 2011
Dengue in Kenya, Pakistan;
Source: (AFP)cidrap Sep 30, 2011 Dengue hits Kenya, Pakistan hard A dengue outbreak in northeastern Kenya has affected at least 5,000 people in the past few weeks and is overwhelming…
ONE | New mobile tech aims to fill cracks in Kenya’s health care
Source: ONE Sep 25th, 2011 9:00 AM UTC By Jenna Carter There is no doubt that Kenya is all about being mobile. Between money transfer system MPesa and the interactive…
Greedy traders and government to blame
Source: Daily Nation By: Stanley Githunguri The issue of rampant alcoholism in Central Kenya has been with us for the last few decades. But with the death of more than…
Immunise the children
Source: Daily Nation Posted Sunday, September 25 2011 at 20:05 The government has launched a week-long polio immunisation campaign to cover about 1.8 million children in Nyanza and parts of…
Kenya’s filthy working-class
Source: The Standard By:Sophie Khakasa Kenya’s next cholera epidemic will not be in the slums but in relatively affluent areas where Kenya’s educated and employed single people live in filth…
Kenyan Nobel laureatte Wangari Maathai dies in hospital
Source: CAPITAL FM Posted by NEWS TEAM on September 26, 2011 NAIROBI, Kenya Sep 26 – Kenyan environmentalist and the 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Muta Maathai has died…
Elusive Joy for Mothers and Babies as Cartels Run Maternity Down
Source: Daily Nation Arthur Okwemba 24 September 2011 More than 1,000 children died at the crisis-ridden Pumwani Maternity Hospital in the past year as the City Council facility continued to…
Kenya drug maker takes a shot at global market
Source: Business Daily By Mugambi Mutegi Posted Monday, September 26 2011 at 00:00 A Kenyan firm has applied for certification of one of its drugs by the World Health Organisation…
Kibaki holds talks with Douglas Melvin of DACC
Source: KBC Written By:PPS, Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 President Mwai Kibaki on Friday in New York City held talks with Douglas C. Melvin and the President of an international…
East African Physicians Urge Action on Neglected Disease
Source: Voice of America A parasite known as kala azar is said to infect half-a-million people worldwide, killing up to 60,000 people each year. Spread through the bite of a…
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