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Less than three weeks ago after a British study
demolished the long held belief that organic foods were of better nutrition and quality compared to conventionally grown crops, Kenyan consumers have gone into panic.
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Kenya has been selected as one of the countries set to introduce free anti-pneumonia vaccine to help tame a disease
that is now the number one killer of babies and children in the country.
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A record number of Kenyan women are abandoning the use of family planning methods a few
weeks or months after picking them from government health facilities, a move that has shocked reproductive health experts.
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Susan Robi hurries through Senta Market heading towards Nyamtiro Market on the Kenya -Tanzania border. She has a huge load on her head, a baby on her back and is tugging along her two
other children aged about six and nine respectively.
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Fertility experts are appealing to well educated and professional men to come out and donate
sperms to meet the demand and the preferences of an increasing number of couples and single women looking for sperms from a particular breed of people.
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A group of patients at Mathari Hospital have
found themselves stuck at the facility for a total of 186 years after their families declined to accept them back even after they were found fit to be integrated in the society.
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With an increase in the number of families and communities declining to live
with the mentally ill patients upon their release from the hospital, psychiatrists and advocates of these mentally ill persons in Kenya are now pushing for the establishment of...
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Statistics from a local fertility clinic are showing that an increasing number of women who are unable to give birth are experiencing serious physical, emotional and
psychological violence meted against them by their husbands and in-laws. At least one w...
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She walks in smiling, her steps not steady. She heads straight to a table, although partially blind. She stumbles and almost falls over. Another
woman runs to help her regain her balance.
Nineteen-year-old Easter Nduta Njoroge is taking a computer oper...
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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 wi...
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A woman who has suffered physical and emotional violence for close to eight years for being unable to conceive was all smiles when a pregnancy test she did following an In Vitro Fertilization showed she was
three weeks pregnant.
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The failure on the part of government authorities to adapt to climate change, which causes the drying up of water resources and disturbed precipitation patterns are responsible for the
widespread poverty in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.
Precipitation va...
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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 ove...
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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, t...
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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 educa...
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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. Th...
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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 wo...
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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 c...
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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, pare...
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