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How Much is Spent on Healthcare in Kenya and Where Does the Money Come From?

Since January 2015, how much has your family spent on healthcare? By healthcare, I mean direct medical costs expended on consultation fees, inpatient care, or

How Can Fathers Better Support Breastfeeding Mothers?

The early days of having a newborn are fraught, anxious times for any parent, no matter how experienced they may be. Whether the concerns are

Words Matter: Non-Communicable Diseases Not a “Luxury”

Non-communicable diseases, or NCDs, are illnesses or conditions including cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity that progress slowly over time, and are increasingly a

What Can Be Done to Fix Our Kenyan Schooling

By Moses Ngware, Head of Education Research Program, APHRC via Standard Digital News Kenya’s next generation could be the best educated in our history. It

Current Curriculum Outdated, Needs Overhaul, Education PS Says

By Magdalene Wanja, via Daily Nation The current education curriculum is outdated and needs urgent overhaul, education PS Belio Kipsang has said. The Ministry of

It is Research and Not Politics That Will Eradicate the Jigger Menace

More than 1.4 billion people in resource-poor communities are afflicted by tropical diseases annually, and yet they never hit the headlines. These neglected diseases, and

Reflections on Research Ethics and Quality in Kenyan Universities and Research Institutions

More than 1.4 billion people in resource-poor communities are afflicted by tropical diseases annually, and yet they never hit the headlines. These neglected diseases, and

How Do You Keep Vaccines Cool? Try Spacecraft Insulation

By Sophie Cousins, via NPR If you’ve ever been vaccinated, you may have seen the nurse head out of the room to go to the

Africa Urged to Carry Out Planetary Health Reforms

By Gilbert Nakweya and Sam Otieno, via SciDev.Net Experts are urging African countries to carry out policy reforms to achieve planetary health by taking into

Join us at the Education Evidence for Action Conference!

Join the Kenya Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Kenya Institute of

Contribution of S&T Missing in Global Nutrition Report

By Pauline Okoth, SciDev Writer, via SciDev.Net I witnessed the launch of the 2015 Global Nutrition Report last month (28 October) and after perusing it,

Understanding Our Youth, Building Our Capacity

By Caroline Kabiru, Research Scientist, APHRC via GEAS Newsletter While adolescence is a much-studied period of life, we know relatively little about how very young