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A female rehabilitation centre at Mathari hospital may be closed down or given to the male wing after female drug abusers failed to turn-up in large numbers to utilize it.
The 15-bed centre has been operating below capacity, sometimes with...
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As nutritionists and medical doctors continue advising people to eat more fish for healthy living, environmental experts are now condemning this nutritious food, leaving people confused. The experts are basing their caution on new findings that show inc...
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Kenya is one of the countries that have agreed to finalise negotiations on halting global mercury pollution after 10 years of inertia on the matter, particularly by developed countries led by the United States. The landmark decision, taken by over ...
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The women talk animatedly as they narrate the benefits they have enjoyed as beneficiaries of the Women Funds, an intervention that has enriched their lives in more ways than one. Bur Abor Bidii Women Group in Mandera East, North Eastern province has, thr...
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Life has not been the same since she lost her parents four years ago and the little property they owned grabbed by her immediate relatives. For her, every day has meant living for herself and her two younger sisters. With no property and or education...
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The lifting of the Gag Rule, which had prohibited the US government from funding organizations that talk about abortion or offer related services, has been greeted with tears of joy by Kenyan women, but scoffed and criticized by anti-abortion groups. This...
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A recent study at Kenyatta National Hospital has found close to two-thirds of those seeking post-abortion care services at the facility to be married women, demolishing the long held belief that this was a practice popular among unmarried or single women....
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With her baby strapped on her back, the woman walks all day looking for employment, she is a casual laborer and her trade revolves around washing clothes and cleaning people’s home for Ksh 180 or when she is lucky Ksh 200 a day. With the cur...
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There is nothing more devastating to new parents than the heart-wrenching news that the diagnosis that their precious newborn has a congenital condition. Facing the uncertainties of lifelong disability and medical challenges in their offspring, parent...
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Throughout her farming career, Ms Jane Owino has sowed seeds from the previous year’s harvest. However, the 47-year-old resident of western Kenya has never enjoyed any benefit from her labour. Year in and year out, she diligently works...
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Following the biting food, fuel and financial crises that hit the world last year, and which was rated the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s, scientists are calling for quick interventions to reduce carbon dependency and th...
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Edwin Onyango, a small scale farmer in Kisumu West district in Nyanza province was diagnosed with diabetes in 1998. However his meager income and the prohibitive cost of medicine in government and private pharmacies leave him no option but to support ...
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Climate change is real. It is a life threatening event that cannot be ignored in the 21st century. It is cited as the cause of extreme heat, severe crop failure, drying up rivers, depleting food for livestock and wildlife and irregular rainfal...
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Thousands of free morning after pills are lying uncollected in many government hospitals as women unaware of their existence spend hundreds of shillings to purchase them in the private chemists. By end of last year, of the 500,000 doses of morning after...
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If you do not believe in God or Worship at least once week, you may need to rethink your behavior in light of findings of a recent survey that shows Kenyans who have no religion to be the hardest hit with HIV. Final findings of Kenya AIDS Indicator S...
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Close to 30 women who have been suffering in silence with their infertility problems and abusive marriages came out to share their tales after reading a story in the last Saturday Nation of an improved In Vitro Fertilization technique that can assist ...
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Joy Noreh admiring one of the test tube babies delivered by the Nairobi IVF Centre in Landmark Plaza Opp. Nairobi Hospital, where she is a Co-Director. With 96 babies delivered so far, the Nairobi IVF clinic is on of the most successful in Africa. ...
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East African ecologists are keeping their fingers crossed as the competition for scarce water between wildlife and pastoral communities escalates in the Maasai Mara game reserve. This life and death struggle carries another negative dimension to it as...
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If you are the type that does not wash hands after leaving the toilet or before handling food, then the country is turning the spotlight on you during a massive campaign to have you do just that. The campaign, which started late last year, is infor...
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Buoyed by what is happening with preventing malaria and unnecessary deaths using less costly and simple methods, health experts want similar strategies be applied on other diseases. Recent studies indicate the use cost-effective preventive strateg...
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