A family in Mwihoko Discovery Area in Kiambu County is grieving the death of their baby boy, Zayed Mukolwe who was found dead after going missing. According to a poster by Missing Child Kenya, the young boy went missing on Sunday 6th August 2023 while playing with his friends just around the estate. Reports indicate […]
Kula vyakula vyenye lishe bora wakati wa kunyonyesha huwanufaisha si kina mama tu, bali pia watoto wao. Ila ni vyakula vipi bora vinavyofaa kuliwa wakati wa kunyonyesha? Lishe yenye afya inapaswa kuwa na kiasi kikubwa cha kalsiamu, chuma, potasiamu, na vitamini A na D. Wakinamama wanaonyonyesha wanapaswa kujitahidi kupata virutubishi hivyo kupitia aina mbalimbali za […]
World Health Organization recommends that babies should be exclusively breastfed for six months. However, this becomes an uphill task for working moms who have to go back to work after their maternity leave lapses. To continue feeding the baby on breast milk even after resuming work needs planning and sacrifice to pull it up. […]
Working Party on Education Reforms [PWPER] has recommended a raft of measures that will see a reform in the education sector in a report presented to President William Ruto yesterday. The report was handed over to the president yesterday at the State House where primary schools were recommended to be referred as comprehensive schools. The task […]
Every August the world celebrates world breastfeeding week with the aim to induce positive discussions about breastfeeding while encouraging the practice. The theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2023 is “Let’s make breastfeeding and work, work!” The year’s campaign is geared toward promoting breastfeeding in workplaces by creating a conducive environment for working moms to pump […]
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 […]
Poverty in Kenya still stands as an exposure to the illegal trade of trafficking for cheap labor and sexual abuse of women, children and men. Florence Bore, the cabinet secretary in the Ministry for Labor and Social Protection, announced a comprehensive action plan in Nairobi, outlining its core pillars, which are prevention, protection, prosecution, and […]
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 […]