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5-14-year-olds new target in campaign against malaria infection
Source: The East African By CHRISTINE MUNGAI Posted Saturday, August 27 2011 at 18:40 Children aged 5-14 are now the major victims of malaria infection in Kenya as control efforts…
U.S. Pledges to Help Kisumu Hospital
Source: Nairobi Star Samuel Otieno 25 August 2011 The United States of America will continue partnering with the Kenyan government to support its health sector to reduce the spread of…
Lifestyle diseases deepen cost of medical insurance
Source: Business Daily By STEVE MBOGO Posted Wednesday, August 24 2011 at 00:00 Increasing cases of lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and diabetes among young working class Kenyans has led…
Kenyan island gets Slovak doctors
Source:The Slovak Spectator 23 Aug 2011 Flash News Until last year there was not a single doctor on Rusinga Island in Kenya, but now Slovak doctors at the health-care centre…
S Africa research council to help Kenya on nano-technology
Source: Africa Science News South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) announced recently that it is to collaborate with researchers in Kenya to develop a nano-medicine technology aimed…
A.M.R.E.F. Calls On Ministry To Invest In Healthcare
Source: Coastweek NAIROBI (Xinhua) — A leading research expert has called on Kenya to invest in health care in order to ensure sustained efforts towards combating diseases, hunger and environmental…
State must give Kenyans affordable healthcare
Source:Business Daily Posted Tuesday, August 16 2011 at 00:00 In yet another signal of hard times ahead, the country’s top hospitals have adjusted their charges upwards by up to 40…
Text messaging improves treatment of malaria by Kenyan health workers
Source:http://www.bj-hc.co.uk Nairobi, Kenya/ Medicine] – Sending text messages with summarised guidelines for treating malaria to Kenyan health workers improved the provision of the correct antimalarial treatment. Within Africa, the adherence…
Chloroquine, second most preferred medicine after ACTs
Source: Ghana Times Acra, Aug. 9, GNA – Despite the availability of the Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in the country chloroquine continues to be the second most used medicine in…
Health Officials Concerned Over Malaria Drug Resistance
Source:kezi.com By Gary Strieker CNN) — Malaria’s a widespread problem, killing 800,000 people a year. It’s also a constantly changing problem. Scientists scrambling to find new malaria drugs fear that…
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