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Personal Stories
Male Breastfeeding Champions in Kwale
Bakari Muganga - 38, currently has four wives and 17 children. He narrates his family journey with breastfeeding. “I had no education and could not find a job. So, starting a family was the only identity I could earn for myself,” says Bakari while seated with his wives at his home in Kwale County during our interview. “There are so many things that we did not know about childcare because even my wives never went to school. Our first seven children were born so close together and are either sickly or have stunted growth. We fed our babies with porridge, water and sometimes cow milk bef
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East Africa Health and Trade Conference
CHReaD, in collaboration with AU-ECOSOCC Kenya and KANCO, organized a regional conference whose theme was catalyzing the African economy by unlocking the potential of the Africa Free Trade Area and Intra- trade in Africa through Health, Research and Development. The COVID-19 epidemic has shown us that health is at the heart of development. Governments must strengthen the health research and development (R&D) ecosystem to deliver quality and suitable healthcare to Africa' people. The African Union (AU) has produced the Health Research and Innovation Strategy for Afric
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CHReaD Engagement at the East African Health Scientific Conference
In November 2021, we held a scientific conference to present an abstract on Facility-based directly observed therapy (DOT) for tuberculosis during COVID-19: a community perspective. The oral abstract presented by Rahab Mwaniki Campaigns Manager, KANCO, highlighted quantitative and qualitative findings from a global community-based survey on the challenges of administering facility-based DOT during the pandemic as well as potential alternatives.
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By Patricia Wasunna, Knowledge Management, and Digital Communication Officer
The Community Health Units for Universal Health Coverage (CHU4UHC) platform, a Johnson and Johnson funded project, supported the Ministry of Health to launch the Kenya Community Health Strategy.
The launch which was hosted by the Division of Community Health/ Department of Primary Health, took place at Esukuta Community Health Unit in Kajiado County onMar
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Attending an education session on TB at his work place saves a Truck Driver
Arnest Rono, a truck driver, started coughing and having an intermittent fever that would come and disappear. This continued for more than four months. One day, while at his place of work in Mombasa waiting to be assigned the next trip, he attended an education session on TB conducted by North Star Alliance, one of the sub-grantees of the Amref Health Global Fund TB program. After the session, Arnest decided to go for screening and gave sputum for testing. Two days, later he got
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National Dialogue: Solution to Ending Health Workers Strikes in Kenya
Author: Gilbert Wangalwa, Amref Health Africa
The health sector in any country is the greatest pillar of wealth generation in a country. The life of citizens and by extension the economy depends largely on an effective and efficient health system. Low and middle-income countries like Kenya in which the health workforce goes on strike almost every year, should not expect to make any gains in the fight to reduce poverty. There is already a noticeable upsurge of poverty in the country, dealing a blow to the cou
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Talking Book Changing the Face of Health Seeking Behaviour among Kenyan Pastoralist Communities
While social and cultural norms are the backbone of any behaviour in communities, lack of knowledge and information is one of the key barriers to access and utilisation of health services. When working on effective social and behaviour change messaging for nomadic pastoral communities, it is necessary to take into account that these are groups largely burdened by:
- Low literacy levels - only 18.1% and 28.9% of the residents of Turkana and Samburu respectively can read and write; well below the national average of 66.4% [KIHBS 2015].
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Personal Stories
Empowering Local Data Use for Decision Making: The Case of Wamba Health Centre
Article by USAID/Afya Timiza Project Wamba Health Centre is a government facility situated in Samburu East, Wamba Eastward in Samburu County, serving an estimated catchment population of 10,032 (AWP 2019). The facility offers both outpatient and inpatient services and has two community units (Sordo Namunyak and Lpashe) linked to it. In 2016, the facility had a poor health information management system (HMIS) characterized by irregular data reviews, lack of feedback on data accuracy, lack of a fully integrated information system, inexistence of policy and planning framework and t
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Unusual Partnerships: Rangers and Scouts at the Frontline of Improving Maternal and Child Health
“When a woman dies during pregnancy or child birth, it is considered a bad omen and the community does not support any burial rights or conversations regarding the death. It is also believed that a woman who loses her child during pregnancy or child birth is weak and an object of bad luck,” explains Josephine Lenasaya, speaking about some of the myths surrounding maternal and infant deaths in Samburu County. Josephine, who works as a radio operator at the Kalama Conservancy, borrows heavily from her day-to-day work as she advocates for family planning, reproductive, maternal, new born,
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Making Zero Gender-Based Violence a Reality Through Structured Community Dialogue
By John Okandi Kogada - Project Manager and Senior Technical Advisor FGM/C and Anne Gitimu - Programme Director, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (Amref Health Africa in Kenya) Violence against women and girls remains a huge global problem that impacts the day-to-day lives of millions of girls and women each year. There are several justifications and drivers for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and harmful cultural practices, but frequently, these are based on gender norms (social norms) and unequal power. This violence continues to happen in
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