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For Joyce Waithera, 21, a resident of Mathagauta village, Nakuru County, life was 'just pretty' until Class Five when she first felt a headache.
"I thought it was just a normal headache. My parents didn't pay much attention to it either since they also thought the same," Joyce says.
However, when the feeling changed to a sharp pain a week later, her mother took her to a nearby dispensary where the attending medic prescribed painkillers "without even testing" for what was ailing her.
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