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A champion of maternal health
Source: The Standard Friday, July 06 2012 s a mother of two, Anne Soy-Mwendia understands too well the importance of affordable and accessible maternal health for all mothers. She spoke…
Kenyans Struggle to Come to Terms With Abortion and Its Impact on Maternal Health
Huffington Post David J. Olson 10/17/2012 5:26 pm NAIROBI, Kenya — The abortion issue in Kenya is raucous, rancorous and highly emotional and political, just like in the U.S., but…
Phone tracker aids fight against malaria
Source:http://www.stuff.co.nz ZARA BAXTER Last updated 10:15 17/10/2012 Ars Technia reports on a newly published study in Science that shows how technology can aid science. Researchers in Kenya tracked 15 million…
New drug stops pain without unpleasant side effects say researcher
Source: The Guardian Thursday, 20 September 2012 00:00 By Chukwuma Muanya PAINKILLERS have been linked to increased incidence of gastrointestinal problems, heart attacks and other dangerous side effects but researchers…
HIV survivors: alive, but facing poverty, loneliness and prejudice
SOURCE: The guardian By: Sarah Boseley in Washington 27 July 2012 In the 1980s and 1990s they were told they were going to die young, so they gave up their…
AIDS struggle can be won at last
SOURCE: Washington Post Michael Gerson Published: July 28, 2012 12:01 AM EST A memory from the AIDS crisis. It was 2005, the year that global AIDS deaths peaked at 2.3…
Marketing Medicine
Source: The Star Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:11 BY CHRIS HARRISON AW asks: What is the role of PR – public relations? Broadly does such a person act as a…
Sports medicine offers investors new opportunities
Source: Busines Daily DR EDWARD OMETE Posted Tuesday, April 17 2012 at 15:52 The recent near death incident of an English Premier League player and the sad demise of a…
Call for hairdressers to get skin cancer training
Source: BBC Date 21 March 2012 Hairdressers can and should be trained to check their clients for skin cancer, say health experts. Currently there is no general screening programme in…
Health Funding Cuts Cause Worries in Nairobi
SOURCE: VOA By: Cathy Majtenyi January 30, 2012 Several-hundred people gathered in the Kenyan capital Monday to protest funding cuts made by the decade-old The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,…
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