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There has been a renewed focus on sexual reproductive health worldwide, especially regarding Millennium Development Goal 5 on improving maternal health. The World Health Organization has for a long time been an important source of policy, guidelines, and information on various health topics. There are newly updated and catalogued information resources on sexual reproductive health [...]
Health service provision in Kenya, like other countries, favours urban over rural areas. Health indicators confirm the challenges faced by rural populations in terms of access to quality and affordable health services. Maternal and child mortality remains higher in rural areas, geographical access to health facilities is more difficult and there is insufficient supply of [...]
Some leading health systems and policy analysts: Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee*, Anne Mills, Gill Walt and Andy Haines, have been reviewing the challenges faced by those who try to strengthen health systems.
The GTZ Health Sector Programme in Kenya is supporting evidence based decision making in the health sector. To this end it avails information that helps to translate research findings into policy or strategic actions.
Colleagues from GTZ headquarters have started a web log discussing capacity works (Link: http://capacityworks.ez-blogs.de/welcome/). Capacity WORKS is GTZ’s management model for sustainable development.
A new issue of the GTZ-supported bi-weekly newsletter “Health, Education, Social Protection - News and Notes” has been released. - Download here: HESP 27-07
Despite the efforts by the Kenyan Government to bring about fundamental reforms, the country has a totally inadequate health care system. Maternal and infant mortality rates, as well as other major health indicators, have shown a clearly negative trend since the 1990s. The rate of HIV/AIDS in young girls is over 10% (2003).