On a Thursday morning in Viwandani, Nairobi, a community health promoter we will call Veronica visits a household she knows ...

Kenya has confirmed its first case of Ebola virus disease after a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo died at Nairobi Hospital yesterday night.

Kenya is moving to strengthen health services for older people as the country prepares for a sharp increase in ...

When an ultrasound during her fifth month of pregnancy revealed that her unborn child had hydrocephalus and spina bifida, ...

Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has partnered with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to ...

African pharmaceutical regulators have been urged to translate commitments made at a regional summit into practical measures to strengthen drug ...

The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has issued a critical public health warning against the dangerous, unsupervised use of diabetes drug semaglutide containing drugs popularly sold under the brand ...

A newly released national health assessment report has exposed significant, systemic challenges within Kenya’s public health facilities, revealing a persistent gap between policy ambitions and the ...

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has warned that a new wave of preventable outbreaks of HIV, and other STIs, along with unplanned pregnancies, particularly among young people and vulnerable ...

Clinton Health Access Initiative in Kenya secures a special access price for Caffeine Citrate -a lifesaving drug, which helps premature infants with immature breathing patterns to breathe. The special ...

Kenya’s government is tying its push to manufacture more medicines, vaccines and medical technologies locally to a broader overhaul of health financing, arguing that reducing the country’s heavy ...

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and a leading advocate for free knowledge, took center stage at this year’s Wikimania 2025 to award some of the Wikimedia movement’s most outstanding contributors ...