List/Grid Tag Archives: Pneumonia
Let us support fever test initiative to save our children from needless death
Source: Daily Nation By WILLIS S. AKHWALE Posted Sunday, September 18 2011 at 18:1 Each year, countless numbers of children in Kenya and across Africa are brought into clinics and…
Malaria Tops List of World Killer Diseases
Source: Nairobi Star Ibrahim Oruko 12 September 2011 Malaria tops the list of ten diseases that were the leading causes of deaths in Kenya in 2010, a government report shows….
David Cameron: Why we’re right to ringfence the aid budget
Source: The Guardian Tabitha Muikali is 32 years old. She lives in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Last year her eldest son, John, contracted pneumonia. For a month he…
Safe Drinking Water For Western Kenya
SPECIAL REPORT by XINHUA CORRESPONDENT Njoroge Kaburo KAKAMEGA (Xinhua) – Four million rural Kenyans received safe drinking water thanks to a new Lifestraw “Carbon For Water” program. Close to one…
WHO names drugs for mothers, children
SOURCE: THE VISION By RAYMOND BAGUMA Tuesday, 22nd March, 2011 THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has released the first-ever list of recommended medicines that countries, including Uganda, should use to…
The Proof is in Kenya: Pneumonia
SOURCE: ONE – An abc News initiative This post was written by Ginny Wolfe, Communications Director of ONE. The Proof is in Kenya: Pneumonia kills 800,000 people every year, most…
Self-medication rises as prescription drugs bought over counter
Source: Daily Nation 5th March 2011 Most pharmacies in Kenya sell medicine across the counter without asking for a prescription, a new survey shows. This happens despite the fact that…
Pneumonia Fact Sheet
SOURCE: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Please note that any child under one year can now get free immunization against pneumonia in any government health facility Key facts * Pneumonia is the…
MSF Questions Gavi Vaccine Deal
SOURCE: Health E Anso Thom 3 March 2011 Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) has questioned why two drugs companies are to receive millions of dollars in a vaccine deal…
Kenyan church leaders hail pneumoccal vaccine rollout
SOURCE:ENI – News http://www.eni.ch/ Fredrick Nzwili 15 February 2011 Nairobi (ENInews). A global rollout of pneumococcal vaccine aimed at treating pneumonia in infants has come as a welcome development for…
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