Why women, girls are not accessing family planning services

Most of the school-going girls aged between 14 and 17 are mainly introduced to contraceptives by their peers.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Calls to prioritise people living with HIV during Covid-19 vaccination

Kenya is among countries that have been asked to include people living with HIV/AIDs in the list of groups prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccine.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Kenya escapes fourth wave of Covid-19

The stiffer lockdown imposed on 13 counties in Nyanza and western regions among measures that kept the country from ravages of the fourth wave.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Funeral traditions ‘to blame’ for Covid-19 surge

Busia County, has in the recent past witnessed the return of disco matanga, at a time when the country is facing a shortage of Covid-19 test kits.

By MERCY KAHENDA

You will need digital registration to seek treatment through NHIF

Those with physical cards will not register afresh, but their fingerprints will be the mode of identification.

By MERCY KAHENDA

UK boosts Kenya's coronavirus fight with kits to detect variants

Support includes reagents and equipment to increase sequencing and variant assessment capabilities.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Hope for Covid-19 patients with damaged lungs, chests complications

Covid-19 patients suffer hyperactive inflammatory state in severe stages of infection resulting in fatal lung damage...

By MERCY KAHENDA

Ni hali ya weather: Expect extra cold, rainy days…more asthma, flu cases

Kenyans should brace themselves for longer days of cold weather and rains in the coming months.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Life begins at 40, so do some diseases

Though there are no specific diseases for a given age bracket, advancing years come with health conditions, “at 40 years the body can't keep up.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Shortage of condoms, gloves hits health facilities as Kemsa blamed

Condoms are a birth control method but also prevent spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Heavy rains: Feeling fever, nausea, headache? It could be malaria

There has been an upsurge in malaria cases across the country with many Kenyans shunning hospitals due to Covid-19.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Covid-19: Expect more deaths, hospitalisations in fourth wave from July

The fourth wave of the coronavirus will be experienced mid this month mostly in Nairobi and the Coastal region, according to Kenyan scientists.

By MERCY KAHENDA