World Health Organization and other experts are calling for urgent clampdowns of formula milk industry’s exploitative marketing tactics which are riddled with misleading claims and political interference. They say these marketing strategies takes away the gains that breast milk offers to babies while at the same time seriously jeopardizes the health and rights of women […]
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), NEC Corporation Japan and Nagasaki University have developed a digital biometric-based vaccination management system for newborn children in Kenya. The system aims ease the process of vaccination and enhance proper management of data. Further it will promote the administration of appropriate vaccinations as the system would also be used […]
A new study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in babies’ brain activity, reducing their cognitive ability. As a consequence, these babies have problems with executive functioning, the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions. This was attributed to variations in […]
Latest report by the National Cancer Institute indicates that Leukemia is the most common accounting for 15 percent of all childhood cancers in the country. Leukemia is followed by brain tumors at 11 per cent, lymphomas at 10 per cent while other cancers account for 47 per cent. Leukemia is cancer of the body’s blood-forming tissues, […]
Twelve African nations have committed and laid out plans to end AIDS in children by 2030 through an array of HIV testing, treatment and prevention programs. This was announced through a joint statement by 12 representatives from each country in Tanzania during the first ministerial meeting of the Global Alliance to end AIDS in children. The […]
Shirika la misaada la MSF limeripoti ongezeko la asilimia 33 ya wagonjwa wenye utapiamlo katika eneo kubwa la Dadaab baada ya watu kufurika kutoka Somalia iliyokumbwa na ukame. Utapiamlo miongoni mwa watoto umeongezeka, hasa katika mojawapo ya kambi kubwa zaidi za wakimbizi duniani mwaka uliopita huku wasiwasi ukiongezeka kutokana na hali mbaya zaidi katika eneo […]
Watu wazima wengi hua na mafikira ya kwamba, utoto na ujana ndio wakati ulio na furaha zaidi maishani, ila ukweli ni kwamba, watoto wengi na vijana wana uwezekano mkubwa wa kupata mateso ya dhiki na mafadhaiko ambazo huweza kusababisha unyogovu kwa watoto hao. Uchunguzi unaonyesha kuwa, kwa kila vijana wanne, kuna uwezekano wa kijana mmoja […]
World Health Organization has raised alarm over killer cough syrups which as caused more than 300 children fatalities in three counters. The children mainly aged under 5 – in the Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan died of acute kidney injury, This a third warning issued by WHO against the use of two types of cough syrups produced in […]
The government through the State Department of Immigration and E-citizen, is set to issue Unique Personal Identifier (UPI) to newborns at birth. In essence the UPI will be the birth certificate number, the Identity Card number and will also serve as death certificate number. UPI can also be adopted as the official reference for a […]
According to 2022 Kenya Demographic Health Survey, 18 percent of children under five- years in Kenya are stunted, five percent are wasted while 10 percent are underweight due to under nutrition. On the other hand, 3 percent of children under five- years are overweight, which is a sign of over nutrition. The prevalence of stunting […]