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Kenya to adopt comprehensive HIV prevention package for people who inject drugs
Source UNAIDS 23 February 2011 The Kenyan government is taking an innovative approach to reducing HIV among injecting drug users. In a bold new initiative, the government is set to…
Health clinics operated by quacks shut in crackdown
Source: Daily Nation By ELISHA OTIENO elisha_otieno@yahoo.com Posted Saturday, October 29 2011 at 19:09 Twenty-two health facilities have been closed down in Nyanza and Western provinces for operating illegally. Some…
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…
Cases of MDRTB to Rise Because Patients Are Defaulting Drugs
Source: Nairobi Star Diana Madegwa 19 August 2011 The ministry of health has raised fears that the number of patients suffering from drug resistant TB could rise considerably because TB…
Country Sanitation Drive Ranked Among the Best in Africa
Source: Business Daily mmaculate Karambu 27 July 2011 Nothing would give Kepha Ombacho more delight than to achieve 100 per cent sanitation in Kenya. Mr Ombacho, the chief public health…
Kenya Health Ministry emphasises on GM food labelling
Source:Packaging Business review Published 18 July 2011 The Ministry of Health in Kenya has announced that the genetically modified (GM) foods should contain appropriate labelling according to Food, Drugs and…
WHO, UNICEF Seek to Save Lives During Africa’s Hunger Epidemic
Source:BET By:Hortense M. BarberPosted: 07/18/2011 06:19 PM ED In an effort to save lives during the Horn of Africa’s current hunger crisis, workers from two top global health organizations in…
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,…
Antimalarial Plants ‘In Danger of Extinction’
Source: Daily Nation Ochieng’ Ogodo 21 April 2011 Nairobi — More research is needed to prevent the extinction of trees and shrubs with antimalarial properties that could guide the discovery…
Why Anti-Smoking Brigade is a Haughty Anti-Choice Tyranny
Source: Daily Nation Waga Odongo 10 April 2011 Nairobi — Ever been to a designated smoking area? Those small, cut-off-from-the-rest-of-us patches of desolation dedicated to that surreptitious vice that dares…
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