{"id":3208,"date":"2025-11-17T05:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amref.org\/kenya\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:48:57","slug":"kimormor-how-livestock-clinics-are-saving-mothers-in-turkana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amref.org\/kenya\/kimormor-how-livestock-clinics-are-saving-mothers-in-turkana\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimormor: How livestock clinics are saving mothers in Turkana"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3208\" class=\"elementor elementor-3208\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c7c446 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9c7c446\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-835ba32 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"835ba32\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35e6e7a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"35e6e7a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Kimormor:\u00a0How livestock clinics are saving mothers in Turkana\u00a0<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-021bfc3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"021bfc3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<header class=\"single-header\"><div class=\"rb-s-container edge-padding\"><div class=\"single-header-inner\"><div class=\"s-feat-holder\"><div class=\"featured-lightbox-trigger\" data-source=\"https:\/\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/a-young-mother-with-her-children-at-Orpoi-kimomor-outreach-in-Turkana-1_aHdAKw-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" data-attribution=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"featured-img wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/a-young-mother-with-her-children-at-Orpoi-kimomor-outreach-in-Turkana-1_aHdAKw-1536x1024.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"single-header-content light-scheme\"><div class=\"s-cats ecat-bg-1 ecat-size-big\"><div class=\"p-categories\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><div class=\"single-meta meta-s-default yes-0 is-meta-author-color is-bookmark-border\"><div class=\"smeta-in\"><div class=\"smeta-sec\"><div class=\"p-meta\"><div class=\"meta-inner is-meta\"><div class=\"meta-el meta-avatar meta-el multiple-avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"avatar avatar-44 photo avatar-default\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Ollinga.jpg?resize=44%2C44&ssl=1\" alt=\"Michael Ollinga\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\" \/><\/div><div class=\"meta-el co-authors\"><span class=\"meta-label\">By: <\/span><a class=\"meta-author-url meta-author\" href=\"https:\/\/willowhealthmedia.org\/writer\/ollinga\/\">Michael Ollinga<\/a><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/header><div class=\"rb-s-container edge-padding\"><div class=\"grid-container\"><div class=\"s-ct\"><div class=\"s-ct-wrap\"><div class=\"s-ct-inner\"><div class=\"e-ct-outer\"><div class=\"entry-content rbct clearfix is-highlight-shares\"><p><strong><em>Women in Turkana were beaten up and forced to deliver before time, while newborns took goat milk as sick mothers couldn\u2019t breastfeed them<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2013 Cecilia Longolea, Community Health Promoter\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Under the blazing Turkana sun in Namortotio village, Community Health Promoter (CHP) Cecilia Ekwom Longolea walks from one home to another, checking on mothers and babies.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Her first stop is at Cecilia Akai\u2019s house \u2013 a small\u00a0<em>Atot<\/em>\u00a0(traditional Turkana hut). Akai, a mother of three, is nursing her two-month-old baby, delivered safely at Natira dispensary. Longolea examines the baby, confirms the mother is breastfeeding exclusively, and reminds her of her next clinic visit.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Next, Longolea meets Lucia Echwan, who is expecting her second baby in December. The two share a painful past of once suffering at the hands of traditional birth attendants during childbirth. \u201cI almost lost my life the first time,\u201d says Echwan. \u201cAt the hospital, I learned how important it is to give birth safely.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ix9nIyLEoUw?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-GB&autohide=2&wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Now, Longolea monitors her pregnancy closely, checking blood pressure, nutrition and any signs of danger. She\u2019s happy to report Echwan is in good health and attending her antenatal clinics.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cA birth plan helps a mother prepare early; she knows where she\u2019ll deliver and when to move closer to the hospital,\u201d explains Longolea.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>According to the county\u2019s Head of Family Health Division, Dr Gabriel Lopodo, Turkana is one vast 77,000 km\u00b2 area with health facilities about 35 kilometres apart.\u00a0 This makes CHPs like Longolea a lifeline for mothers and babies.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12133\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Gabriel-Lopodo-Ekai-Deputy-Director-Family-Health-Turkana-County-2_TK2bKi-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Turkana County Head of Family Health Division, Dr Gabriel Lopodo. [Photo: Christopher Kipsang, WHM]<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em>Many women gave birth at home, where one would be treated like a goat, beaten up<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Before devolution, ANC clinics, nutrition and child health were alien to the Turkana due to their nomadic culture and \u201cMany women gave birth at home where one would be treated like a goat, beaten up and forced to deliver even before the right dilation,\u201d recalls Longolea of her own ordeal. \u201cTears and injuries were inevitable, and some babies ended up taking goat milk because sick mothers couldn\u2019t breastfeed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>But healthcare has now changed. Dr Lopodo points out that \u201cBefore devolution, we recorded 1,594 maternal deaths per 100,000 livebirths. By 2019, the number had reduced to 381 deaths, only 26 out of the national average of 355. That\u2019s a quantum leap.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12138\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Natira-community-health-promoter-Cecilia-Ekomwa-attending-her-patient-Lucia-Echwa-a-pregnant-mother-of-three-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Natira community health promoter Cecilia Ekwom attends to Lucia Echwan, a pregnant mother of three. [Photo: Christopher Kipsang, WHM]<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Indeed, more mothers are attending ANC clinics and giving birth under skilled attendants, thus reducing maternal mortality fivefold, thanks to Kimormor- a One-Health approach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Anthony Arasio from AMREF manages the Maternal and Newborn Child Health in Turkana under the USAID-funded Imarisha Jamii programme. He explains that Kimormor is a model that \u201cOffers mobile solutions to a mobile population. To address limited access and unsustainability of healthcare access, we brought together livestock and human health needs, along with other most sought-after services like identity card issuance and birth certificate issuance. It\u2019s a crowd puller.\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>In Namanikor village, tens of kilometres from Natira, Ekom Ase and his wife Nasilan Lokaale are attending their first Kimormor event: Ase will be getting an ID card, which will enable him to register for the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF).\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12127\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Mzee-Ekom-Ase-going-through-medical-services-during-Kimormor-outreach-at-OropoiTurkana-County-13_TK2bKi-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mzee Ekom Ase and his family attend a Kimormor outreach in Oropoi, where health and livestock services are delivered together within the community. [Photo: Christopher Kipsang, WHM]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em>His livestock would be vaccinated, and children registered for birth certificates<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cAll our four children were delivered at home with the help of traditional birth attendants because the hospital was very far. A CHP, however, taught us the importance of child immunisation,\u201d Ase explained. He also told Willow Health Media that his livestock would also be vaccinated and children registered for birth certificates, which was previously unheard of for pastoralist children.\u202f\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>One of Ase\u2019s children received four vaccine jabs and nutritional supplements to make up for missed schedules. His wife had a Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) tape test to ascertain her nutritional wellness.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12130\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Mzee-Ekom-Ase-going-through-medical-services-during-Kimormor-outreach-at-OropoiTurkana-County-16_TK2bKi-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mzee Ekom Ase\u2019s wife<\/em>\u00a0<em>holds one of their children as health workers conduct nutrition and wellness checks during a Kimormor outreach in Oropoi, Turkana County.<\/em>\u00a0<em><em>[Photo: Christopher Kipsang, WHM]<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>In Turkana\u2019s male-dominated culture, it is rare for men to accompany their wives to prenatal and child health clinics. However, CHPs convinced Ase that his support was critical for his family\u2019s health. \u201cMen should offer leadership in healthcare too, as they provide resources needed for family treatment,\u201d Ase argues.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The call for men to support pregnant wives to attend clinics and deliver in hospitals is now the core message at\u00a0<em>Ekitoe Angikiliok<\/em>\u00a0(Tree of Men), a key decision-making body in the patriarchal Turkana culture, says Nakaale Ejen, a Kraal leader.\u202f\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The Turkana value for livestock is such that their health even comes second. And vaccinating both people and livestock at the same place has changed life irrevocably.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12144\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Kimormor1_Artboard-2-1024x576.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em>I struggled making emergency referrals of patients using donkeys; we had many deaths<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Modo Eporon, leader of Ng\u2019akile Kraal in Nadapal at the border of Kenya-South Sudan, says the Kimormor outreach is a game changer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cMore mothers and children are reached even in their migratory destinations,\u201d he told Willow Health Media. \u201cI used to struggle making emergency referrals of patients using donkeys to distant health centres, and we had many deaths.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Not anymore.\u00a0 Eporon leads about 100 households. And his position on health matters and men\u2019s involvement is taken as law, considering he\u2019s a cabinet member of Ngimurok, of community religious leaders with direct revelation from their creator.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Kimormor-1_Artboard-1-1-1024x576.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Turkana men have also been transformed into advocates against early marriages. Like Ekrin Lokon, who is helping men protect young girls as they suffer the most during childbirth, with most ending up on theatre tables for Caesarean Section deliveries.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The Kimormor has successfully transformed traditional birth attendants like Nakodo Ewesit. After being trained by a CHP, Ewesit no longer delivers babies at home. Instead, she now acts as an ambassador for hospital births. Her title has even changed to \u201ctraditional birth companion\u201d to reflect this new role of bridging modern medicine and culture.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cDelivering at home was risky as mothers with complications would sometimes die with their babies,\u201d explains Ewesit. \u201cHospitals can conduct operations and help mothers deliver without losing too much blood.\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12146\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Kimormor1_Artboard-3-1024x576.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em>When we take care of animals, they\u2019ll come with pregnant mothers and children for health services<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Ewesit now feels Kimormor should be extended to the neighbouring Toposa community of South Sudan, as they can use \u201cThe border hospital at Nadapal, strengthens our ties and reduces feuds.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Dr Epem Esekon, the County Executive Committee (CEC) member in charge of human health in Turkana County, has no qualms about vaccinating livestock at the Nadapal Kimormor.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cOur people\u2019s priority is livestock. When we take care of animals, they\u2019ll come with pregnant mothers and children for health services. We all win,\u201d observes Esekon, adding that the Kimormor reached about 3,000 people and over 10,000 livestock.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12122\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Dr.Ekiru-Kidalo-Director-medical-services-Turkana-county-4_aHdAKw-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ekiru Kidaalo, Director of Medical Services in Turkana County. [Photo: Christopher Kipsang, WHM]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Ekiru Kidaalo, Director of Medical Services in Turkana County, said Kimormor has increased hospital deliveries as \u201cWe\u2019ve integrated the culturally accepted birth stool in hospitals to attract mothers who insist on delivering in a squatting position.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Ekiru says the birth stools are common at the Lodwar County Referral Hospital (LCRH) and Lorugum health centre, and are ideal as \u201cThe squatting position is recommended by the Gynaecologists Society of Kenya as it allows women to deliver in their natural anatomical position.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong><em>Allowing mothers to take their placentas home made them more willing to deliver in hospitals<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>To make it easier for mothers, health facilities in Turkana are building traditional huts where pregnant women can stay as their due date approaches. They can be accompanied by their husbands and Traditional Birth Companions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cWe create an environment that encourages them to deliver at home in our health facilities, and when they experience this, they spread the message to other mothers who then embrace hospital deliveries,\u201d added Ekiru.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Stanley Chepyego, a nurse at LCRH, says about \u201cFour out of 10 deliveries are done at the birth stool. We\u2019ll need to have a special registry for this delivery to capture its success story.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Pauline Kirwa, a senior nurse at Kerio Health Centre, says that allowing mothers to take their placentas home after birth has made them more willing to deliver in hospitals. This has led to a rise in the number of supervised hospital births.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cSimple motivators like giving mothers exercise books during ANC visits and promising them the purple Mother and Child Health handbook after hospital delivery,\u201d Kirwa disclosed.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-12148\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willowhealthmedia.org\/storage\/2025\/11\/Kimormor1_Artboard-4-1024x576.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/figure><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Dr Jacob Khaoya, Deputy Chief of Party at AMREF, pegs the success of Kimormor at designing the programme with people and their needs in mind as \u201cInterventions that overlooked cultural values and priorities couldn\u2019t achieve much.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Dr Khaoya also added that collecting digital data from the Kimormor program has helped them make key decisions to sustain and improve maternal healthcare access.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Data collected by CHPs is compiled by Community Health Assistants and sent digitally to county administrators via the Electronic Community Health Information System (ECHIS).\u00a0<\/p><p>Turkana County has already made legislations like the Community Health Services Act 2018, which largely borrow from the Kimormor approach to ensure better and sustainable health outcomes.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><em><strong>Graphics by Arthur Mbuguah.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-644c6d1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"644c6d1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45223d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45223d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-start=\"498\" data-end=\"642\"><li data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"642\"><p data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"642\"><em data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"642\">Originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/willowhealthmedia.org\/kimormor-from-cows-to-care-how-livestock-clinics-are-saving-mothers-in-turkana\/\">Willow Health Media <\/a>on <\/em> November 7, 2025<em data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"642\">.<\/em><\/p><\/li><\/ul><p data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"691\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimormor:\u00a0How livestock clinics are saving mothers in Turkana\u00a0 \u00a0By: Michael Ollinga\u00a0 Women in Turkana were beaten up and forced to deliver before time, while newborns took goat milk as sick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":3221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[55,2083,865],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amref.org\/kenya\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Natira-community-health-promoter-Cecilia-Ekomwa-attending-her-patient-Lucia-Echwa-a-pregnant-mother-of-three-1024x683-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.6.1 - 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