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Reading Glasses for Improved Livelihoods: A Step Closer towards Attaining Universal Health Care in Kenya

The Reading Glasses for Improved Livelihoods program is a joint initiative between Amref Health Africa and VisionSpring aimed at creating…

6 years ago

Breast milk is Best for Your Baby

The World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from August 1-7 to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies…

6 years ago

Health cover for all determines pace of economic growth

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is anchored in the principle that everyone should receive needed health services without facing financial hardship.…

6 years ago

Health access is a human rights issue and UHC will level the field

By GITHINJI GITAHI There is a good chance that you have in the past few months attended a fundraiser or…

6 years ago

What the Budget Means for Universal Health Coverage

By Dr Meshack Ndirangu The health sector was one of the major highlights of the 2018/19 budget with its allocation…

6 years ago

Community Health Workers Can Boost NHIF Coverage

You have probably suffered high out of pockets costs as you sought care from a health facility, admission at a…

6 years ago

Mandatory Steps on the Journey to Universal Health Coverage

By GITHINJI GITAHI. Health is a driver of economic growth and gives everyone a chance at the race of life.…

6 years ago

Let’s leave no one behind in Campaign to End Fistula

By Dr Elizabeth Wala The International Day to End Obstetric fistula (IDEOF) is marked annually on May 23rd to raise…

6 years ago

First Pan-African Anti-FGM Youth Summit Held in Nairobi, Kenya

  The first ever Pan-African Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Youth Summit was held in Nairobi, Kenya between 25-26 April at…

6 years ago

Lassa Fever Outbreak: My Assignment with WHO in Nigeria

“I am writing this blog in Nigeria, where I have been deployed by the  World Health Organization (WHO) as an…

7 years ago