Kenyan schoolgirls create female health app for Google

Posted on :Friday , 11th August 2017

 Stacy Owino, Cynthia Otieno, Purity Achieng, Mascrine Atieno and Ivy Akinyi are students at Kisumu Girls High School, in Kisumu, Kenya. They belong to the school’s science and technology club, and focus on developments that help their community, in particular women and young girls. They call themselves the Restorers, dedicated to “restoring hope for hopeless girls”.

Berthoud area resident brings medical knowledge to Kenya

Posted on :Friday , 11th August 2017

 Berthoud area resident Susan Puckett wants to return to Kenya after a whirlwind trip of helping schoolchildren and adults with their medical care

Pooling medical services can help lower healthcare cost

Posted on :Friday , 11th August 2017

 The main challenge facing health providers is improving service efficiency and making treatment affordable without compromising the quality of care.

This entails lowering the cost of treatment and tackling inefficiencies that hamper access to care. Two primary areas of focus in health reform are lowering cost of drugs and eradicating corruption and waste of resources.

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World's First Malaria Vaccine to be Tested in Africa

Posted on :Friday , 28th April 2017

Programs beginning next year in Ghana, Malawi and Kenya will test the vaccine's effectiveness in children. The trial was announced ahead of World Malaria Day (25.04.2017).

Tanzania to Send 500 Doctors to Kenya to Ease Health Strike Burden

Posted on :Thursday , 23rd March 2017

Tanzania has announced a plan to send 500 doctors to Kenya after a doctors' strike paralyzed health services in the neighboring country for months. Kenyan doctors, however, say the government should not hire any foreign doctors but instead employ the more than 1,000 trained physicians who are unemployed.