UNICEF has launched the world’s first-period tracker app for girls, Co-created with girls in Kenya. This Oky-Kenya app aims to help girls take control of their periods and their lives by providing information about menstruation in a fun, creative and positive way. The app, which first went live on the Google play store on March […]
To help health workers in nomad communities effectively track pregnant mothers and infants, a hybrid GPS tracker innovation is in the works. The tracker is an innovation by Dahabo Adi Galgalo, a trained medical laboratory technologist-cum-epidemiologist from Marsabit County, alongside engineering experts as reported by Nation. The innovation is expected to help healthcare workers reach […]
Gavana wa Mombasa Abdulswamad Nassir ametangaza huduma za afya bila malipo kwa watoto walio na umri wa chini ya miaka mitano katika Hospitali ya Rufaa ya Pwani (CGTRH) na vituo vyake vyote vya mawasiliano. Nasir pia alifichua kuwa kaunti imeanza mipango ya kuanza kugharamia bili za matibabu kwa wagonjwa walio na mahitaji na vile vile kusajili […]
Afghanistan inasalia kuwa miongoni mwa maeneo ambayo yamepata majanga mabaya zaidi ya kibinadamu duniani huku Shirika la Kutetea Haki za Binadamu la Human Rights Watch katika ripoti ya hivi majuzi lilisema kwamba thuluthi mbili ya wakazi wa nchi ya Afghanistan wana uhaba wa chakula. “Afghanistan kwa kiasi kikubwa imetoweka kutoka kwa vyombo vya habari, lakini […]
Recent statistics show that an estimated 13.4 million babies were born pre-term in 2020, with nearly 1 million dying from preterm complications.in addition, at least 152 million vulnerable babies were born too soon from 2010 to 2020 This is equivalent to around 1 in 10 babies born early worldwide according to a new report released […]
In an aim to reduce anemia among children and women, World Health Organization has launched a new framework to half its prevalence by 2050. Taking a different path from the previous work-frames, the new framework will tackle the direct causes, risk factors, and broad social inequities that are fundamental drivers of anemia rather than focusing […]
A 13-years old boy from Ohio USA has died after overdosing on Benadryl as part of a viral TokTok challenge. According to his family Gofundme account Jacob Stevens’ body began to seize up after he swallowed a large amount of the antihistamine allergy pills as his friends filmed to see what would happen. Participants of […]
To reduce malnutrition among adolescent girls in Africa, the African Union in collaboration with Nutrition International last week launched an advocacy campaign dubbed ‘With Good Nutrition, She’ll Grow into It’. The two-year campaign aims promote health, well-being and empowerment of girls through efforts that prevent anaemia, an iron-deficiency condition, and galvanises the support of policymakers […]
A family from Mukuru Kwa Ruben is crying for Justice after their seven years old son was left with life threatening injuries during anti-government protest on March the 20th. The family of Louise Musela claims he was hit by a teargas canister during the riots and for the past two weeks he has been confined […]
Wadau na wazazi walio na watoto walioathiriwa na usonji wamejitokeza na kutoa wito kwa serikali ya kitaifa na kaunti kuweka vifaa vitakavyowahudumia na kusaidia katika maendeleo ya watoto hao. Akihutubia wanahabari huko Uriri wakati wa Siku ya Autism Duniani, Caroline Kisuge wa Jonathan Rays of Hope alisema kuwa nchi haina vifaa vya kujifunzia ambavyo vinaweza […]