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Helping to break mental health care barriers in Kenya

10 October 2022

In a previous stint as a chemistry teacher Dr Gladys Mwiti could not help but notice flagging performance among her students. She would later discover that the underachievement was largely due to unresolved trauma from poverty, domestic violence and abuse.

Forging a path to universal healthcare

01 August 2022

In 2018, 60-year-old James Kimeu Mulei suffered a badly broken ankle that left him unable to walk after a violent attack. A few years previously, this story could well have ended with a permanent injury that restricted Mulei’s ability to work and live a full life.

Quitting tobacco farming to improve health

01 August 2022

Dr Francis Manyinza, a senior clinician at the Migori County Referral Hospital in southwestern Kenya, wasn’t surprised when lifelong tobacco farmer Petalis Ouma sought medical care for his chronic cough and ever-worsening chest pains.

Reginald Omulo, Bean Farmer

12 August 2022

Reginald Omulo, a farmer in Migori County, Kenya, noticed that the tobacco farming his community practiced was affecting families’ health and well-being.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros shake hands at the groundbreaking for launch of the WHO Emergency Hub in Nairobi for workforce development & maintaining stockpiles of medical and logistical supplies

Kenya and WHO launch bold initiative to transform Africa’s health emergency response...

09 July 2022

Kenya, WHO launch bold initiative to transform Africa’s health emergency response

09 July 2022

Brazzaville/Nairobi – The Government of Kenya and the World Health Organization (WHO) held a ground-breaking ceremony today in Nairobi for a WHO Health Emergency Hub, which will include a Centre of Excellence for the Health Emergency Workforce, laying the cornerstone for a wider initiative that aims to change the way the continent handles emergencies.

WHO team in a meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss the critical health response necessitated by the drought and food insecurity crisis in Horn of Africa

WHO intensifies response to looming health crisis in the greater Horn of Africa as ...

30 June 2022

The health risks in the region are increasing, while access to health care is deteriorating

Launch of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety

Kenya launches road safety initiative to reduce crashes

25 May 2022

Press Statement: Kenyan Government, World Health Organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies
launch new initiative to reduce road crash deaths

Road traffic crashes are a top-five cause of death for Kenyans between the ages of five and 70, and the leading killer of boys aged 15-19.

Kenyan lab boosting Africa’s genome surveillance

28 March 2022

Kilifi, Kenya – Amid the soft purr of the air conditioner and glinting LED screens, laboratory technicians inside a sprawling facility on the Kenyan coast peer into test tubes and pore through spreadsheets, hard at work to help propel Africa’s efforts to monitor and detect COVID-19 variants and boost pandemic response.

Launch of tobacco-free farms in Kenya

23 March 2022

Hundreds of farmers in Migori County, Kenya will break free from risky tobacco farming and transition to producing more sustainable crops, through the Tobacco-Free Farms Project being launched today.

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