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13 Mar 2021
A year of resetting what is normal: 12 months post COVID
Today we mark exactly one year since Kenya recorded its first case of COVID-19 on 12th March, 2020.In its wake, the coronavirus disease has left our national consciousness wounded and scarred, every a...
22 Jan 2021
The guidance note on Personal Data Protection on COVID-19
In March 2020, the World
Bank declared COVID-19
as a global Pandemic
prompting governments
and health officials to take
precautionary measures to
curb the spread of the virus. Some
of the measures put...
8 Jan 2021
KEEPING YOUR FINGER ON THE PULSE
1,075,673 Cumulative Tests 97,733 Confirmed Corona Cases 80,360 Recoveries 1,702 Deaths *07/01/2021 COVID STATISTICS December 2020 A season of Double Crisis According to Research by TIFA conducted in ...
18 Dec 2020
State of Healthcare in Kenya: Of COVID, Striking medics and BBI
On Wednesday, the Employment and Labour Court ordered striking health workers to temporarily resume work. The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) officials however claim that the court order does ...
18 Dec 2020
2021-The year of the COVID-19 vaccine: Or is it?
The novel Covid 19 has had unparalleled devastating impact on the overall global economy. The pandemic has been far more than a health crisis: it has adversely affected societies and economies at thei...
11 Dec 2020
Colour me orange: 16 days of activism against gender-based violence
Accompanying the COVID-19 crises was the spike in reported instances of domestic violence mostly targeted at women and girls. This was one of the observations made by UN Secretary- General, António G...
11 Dec 2020
After the latest death, reflection
The death of Dr Stephen Mogusu from Covid-19 complications once more exposed massive gaps in the way the Government treats its essential workers. Red tape could have been blamed for the fact tha...
4 Dec 2020
World AIDS Day- Impact of COVID-19 on ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic
It is nearly 40 years since the first reported case of HIV/AIDS. The 32nd edition of the World AIDS Day was commemorated under an unprecedented norm occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over and above...
27 Nov 2020
Interfaith Council for Corona response
The Interfaith Council for Corona Response sympathizes, prays and condoles with those that have lost loved ones due to the pandemic and continually pray for those infected and affected and their famil...
9 Oct 2020
Lyft nicotine pouches declared illegal in Kenya
The Pharmacy and Poisons Act (the “Poisons Act”) which provides a legal framework for the control of the profession of pharmacy and the trade in drugs and poisons lists nicotine and its salts, as ...
2 Oct 2020
Financing non-communicable diseases in Kenya
Government has increased
the health budget by 10.4%
to Kes. 114 Billion...
4 Sep 2020
Should children and adolescents have access to reproductive health care services?
Kenya has a National Policy on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) developed in 2003 and reviewed in 2015. It is said that the Policy laid the foundation for development of relate...
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