Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has decried a rising trend of teenage pregnancies especially in Western Kenya. He said the pregnancies are a crises that requires drastic measures to end the vice. He said that data shows that western Kenya of Bumngoma, Busia, Kakamenga and Vihiga are leading in teen pregnancies. He was speaking at […]
Dial A Pad is petitioning the government to lower the cost of pads from Sh 100 to Sh.50. This, the organization said, will help in saving many girls and women from period shame that can be occasioned by this price hick. Although Kenya has made tremendous gains over the years in a bid to end […]
World Health Organization has called upon countries to invest and establish childhood cancer centres of excellence and care networks to promote early detection for better outcomes and survival of childhood cancers victims. According to the organization for a child living in a low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) the likelihood of surviving cancer is less than 30 […]
Eight students from Moi Girls, Mandera County ,were on Friday admitted at Cholera Treatment Centre in the town after contracting Cholera. Mr Abukar Abdi Sheikh, the county chief officer for health denied reports that a student succumbed to the disease on Sunday. He added that the eight are responding well to treatment at the centre. “We […]
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 […]