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Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are leading in new cancer cases in Africa. In 2018 Kenya was reported to have 47 887 new cancer cases
It is the last few weeks of January as I make my way to work through Kibera, one of Nairobi’s biggest slums. I see children
Over the course of my short stint at the Maternal and Child Wellbeing Unit at African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), I have had
Immunization advocates call for reforms in vaccine supply chain to bolster Universal Health Coverage
Kenya is among the countries planning for a national roll-out of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) scheme by the year 2022. With the pilot in
There’s conclusive evidence that education improves societal well-being. For this reason societies invest heavily in inclusive and quality education. Households play their part by funding
Quality education is fundamental for development. It is not possible to attain sustainable economic development without adequate investment in human capital. Each year, about one
Eight years ago, CNN premiered ‘Locked up and forgotten’, a documentary that took us behind the gates of Mathari hospital, Kenya’s largest psychiatric facility. We
In 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons. In line with the spirit of the Sustainable
By Ken Wekesa A walk through Lukuli informal settlement in Makindye division, about 12 kilometers south of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, is a journey through a
During the 2017 Family Planning Conference an interactive session took participants through the kind of future that access to sexual and reproductive health services accords
Growing up in a remote village in southwestern Nigeria, I witnessed the agony of parents who lost their children to unsafe abortion; the disappointment of