The World Health Organisation has published two major reports – the Mental Health Atlas 2024 and the World Mental Health Today – with updated suicide estimates.    According to the World Men...

Mombasa County has received 5,000 doses of the Mpox vaccine as part of its efforts to control the outbreak. The county accounts for about half of all reported infections in Kenya. It plans to launch a...

A new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) reveals that corporal punishment remains alarmingly widespread and causes significant harm to children’s health and development. Globally, an es...

Kenya is facing a critical shortage of healthcare workers that threatens to derail the country’s plan to deliver universal health coverage, according to a recent assessment by the World Health Organ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has officially designated Health Canada, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare/Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (MHLW/PMDA) of Japan, and the Medicin...

The Cabinet’s approval of the Quality Healthcare and Patient Safety Bill, 2025, marks a significant milestone for Kenya’s health sector. At first glance, this seems like just another well-meaning ...

Community pharmacists will now dispense HIV prevention drugs to Kenyans seeking protection from the virus’s infection. The decision was informed by a study that found doing so would significantly in...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing a sharp resurgence of cholera, with cases reported in 17 of its 36 provinces and over 35,000 infections recorded since the beginning of the year, a...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a major new initiative urging countries to raise real prices on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks by at least 50% by 2035 through health taxes in a m...

The Ministry of Health has launched a nationwide 10-day vaccination campaign from July 5th to 14th, 2025, targeting two major threats to children’s health: typhoid and measles–rubella (MR). The ca...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 this week at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin. WHO advised that action is needed to maintai...

Uganda’s borders have always been busy and vulnerable. Over the past decade, Ebola, COVID-19, leptospirosis, Marburg, measles and cholera have all emerged, stretching an already burdened health syst...