Marrieta Halima Kazungu, 18, from Kilifi County is among the top 50 students shortlisted for Sh14 million ($100,000) Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2023. The student from St.Thomas Girls Secondary School was selected from a pool of 3,851 applications from 122 countries and is among the top 10 African contestants. Marietta has developed the Rapidcovix Breathalyzer […]
Medics at Kenyatta National Hospital are celebrating a medical milestone after successfully performing a transfusion of a fetus while still in its mother’s womb. The delicate procedure known as intrauterine fetus transfusion was carried out by a team of seven medics constituting of four doctors, two nurses, and a clinical officer on a 25 weeks […]
To increase HPV vaccination uptake, the Ministry of Health has embarked on a journey to avail the vaccine in schools. This initiative is geared towards boosting the uptake of the vaccine which has been slow due to school closures and movement restrictions occasioned by Covid19 pandemic. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the […]
An additional 4 million children have been vaccinated in 2022 compared to the previous year according to data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. Data shows that in 2022, 20.5 million children missed out on one or more vaccines delivered through routine immunization services, compared to 24.4 million children in 2021. In […]
To help properly document violence against children, UNICEF has developed the International Classification of Violence against Children (ICVAC) with inputs from over 200 experts from national statistical offices, academia, and international organizations. This, the agency says, will help combat lack of available and comparable data that covers the many complex forms of violence which have […]
Records from Naivasha Level 4 Hospital have shown that 15-25 babies die every month in this facility. This was disclosed yesterday by members of the Nakuru County Assembly Health Committee led by Naivasha East MCA Stanley Karanja who visited the facility. The Committee visited the hospital following numerous complaints from Naivasha residents. Mr. Karanja described […]
All day primary and secondary schools within Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu counties will remain closed today due to the ongoing antigovernmental three days protests, the government has said. In a statement, the government through the Ministry of Interior and National Administration said the decision was reached as a measure to ensure the safety of school […]
A woman, 19, has been charged with subjecting a child to cruelty after a video she recorded and sent to her child’s father and later uploading it online emerged. According to the court file, the suspect is said to have assaulted the infant on July 13 in their Mathare home by physically and verbally abusing […]
At least 160 million children are still engaged in child labour which represents one in ten children worldwide. This has been attributed to conflicts, crises and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has plunged more families into poverty – and forced millions more children into child labour. Further,economic growth has not been sufficient, nor inclusive enough, to […]
According to UNICEF, at least 289 boys and girls died every week while crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe in the last 6 months. The number, the agency said, has doubled compared to the same period in 2022. Vera Knaus, the agency’s Global Lead on Migration and Displacement, told journalists attending the biweekly UN […]