More than 300 young men in Kisumu have been circumcised in a study that aims to find out whether circumcision reduces the chances of HIV infection. 

Kenya has fallen short of a key agreement in the rollback strategy malaria that calls on each Africa country to ensure that 60 percent of pregnant women and children aged below five years are sleeping under a mosquito treated nets by this year.

Despite receiving between Sh 3.9 and Sh 4.7 billions as research money every year, the highest amount ever to a single country among the developing countries, Kenya has not made any major breakthrough in science.

The money is being used for research in life sciences - research on livestock, pests and crops - and is going to organisations based in Nairobi, making the city the only one of its kind in the developing world that is a recipient of such amount of money for research purposes.

The Bush administration has put in place policies that require a third of their HIV/AIDS funds to go towards abstinence programmes and is opposed to the 1994 International Conference on Population (ICPD) and Development Program of Action adopted in Cairo, Egypt and to which Kenya is signatory.

A new research that tries to correct history on why people are black or white is likely to generate heated debate with its argument that people look the way they do not because of the genetics or superiority, but because of the environment they live in.

The study disagrees with earlier theories that the dark skin of Africans and other people elsewhere evolved to protect them from cancer of the skin arising from the effects of the Sun's UltraViolet Rays (UVR). Or in some cases, as result of sexual selection, whereby dark females choose dark males.