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More than 650 patients from Eastleigh and Kamukunji areas of Nairobi had their various ailments treated for free at a medical camp organized by the Biafra Medical Clinic in Nairobi. Family planning and counseling, and services (implants, Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device, pills and condoms) were the most requested for services at the two day medical [...]
A general lack of awareness of legal provisions within the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) remains one of the key challenges in implementing the Act almost six years after it came into force in July 2006. A report on the implementation of the Act further mentions withdrawal of cases from the formal justice system due to [...]
Body Mapping is a creative therapeutic tool that brings together bodily experience and visual artistic expression. In its basic form, it involves painting a life-size representation of one’s body onto a larger surface and using colors, pictures, symbols and words to represent experiences lived through the body and show the path that one has taken [...]
Government health expenditure in Kenya has declined from 8 per cent in 2001/2002 to 4.6 percent in 2009/2010 (Kenya National Health Accounts 2009/2010). This is a far cry from the Abuja Declaration (April 2011) where African heads of state committed to allocate 15 per cent of their national budgets to health as well as mobilize [...]
One of the strategic thrusts of the Kenya National AIDS Strategy Plan III (KNASP III) is to mainstream HIV into various sectors through long- term programming, addressing both the root causes and effects of the epidemic. It is for this reason that stakeholders recently met to discuss the first draft of the National Plan of [...]
Reliable access to quality, safe and affordable essential medicines and medical supplies remains a key challenge towards an efficient, quality healthcare system in Kenya. One of the strategic thrusts of the Ministry of Medical Services (MoMs) is to address this challenge. To this end, the German Development Cooperation has partnered with German healthcare products company [...]
In an effort to implement the Constitution in as far as health and particularly reproductive health is concerned, the Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) in collaboration with other stakeholders launched key documents to bridge identified gaps in reproductive health knowledge. The documents, which included the National Reproductive Tract Cancer Guidelines, the Maternal and Newborn Health [...]