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BWIRE: After public lynching of KEMSA, what next?
By Guest Writer,
1810, November 23, 2020 (EAT)
By Victor Bwire The usual mob injustice, transactional nature and emotional approach to dealing with fraud and corruption in public institutions in...
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Biden win seen as green light for women’s reproductive rights
By Reuters,
858, November 9, 2020 (EAT)
Democrat Joe Biden as U.S. president will bring sweeping changes to women’s reproductive rights globally, starting with overturning a U.S. policy ba...
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Uhuru unveils policy measures to speed up UHC roll-out
By PSCU,
1905, October 31, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta today unveiled a raft of policy interventions aimed at fast tracking the national rollout of the Universal Health Coverage (U...
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Kenya joins global trial of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine
By Citizen Reporter,
949, October 31, 2020 (EAT)
Kenya has joined the global efforts in search of an effective vaccine for COVID-19 with the start of a trial evaluating a leading COVID-19 vaccine can...
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La Nina to cause drier than normal conditions in East Africa – WMO
By VOA,
1035, October 30, 2020 (EAT)
The World Meteorological Organization predicts La Nina will continue through January and is expected to usher in drier and wetter conditions than norm...
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COVID-19 could push 49 million Africans into extreme poverty
By CNN,
1148, October 29, 2020 (EAT)
It is now widely recognized that in Africa, the Covid-19 pandemic is on a different trajectory than much of the rest of the world, including the West....
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Miners face new tuberculosis threat as COVID-19 disrupts treatment
By Reuters,
638, October 27, 2020 (EAT)
Vama Jele’s heart dropped every time he heard that another migrant miner home from South Africa had died from tuberculosis (TB) due to skipping trea...
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GEMA Youth Chairman Kioi wa Murera urges youth to back BBI
By Tonny Ndungu,
844, October 23, 2020 (EAT)
GEMA Youth have vowed support for the Bridging Bridges Initiative (BBI) urging Kenyan youth to support the newly released report. In a presser on T...
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Uhuru cautions against letting global COVID-19 response disrupt malaria fight
By PSCU,
749, October 20, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has appealed to the global community not to allow the fight against COVID-19 interfere with efforts to eradicate malaria, pol...
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Interior PS Kibicho says gov’t will revive all stalled development projects
By Martin Munene,
1106, October 16, 2020 (EAT)
Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho on Thursday led a high level government delegation of 12 principal secretaries on an inspection tour of n...
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Kenya risks losing Ksh.12B from Global Fund
By Faizal Ahmed,
1632, September 12, 2020 (EAT)
The gains made in the war on HIV, TB and Malaria could be compromised if Global Fund withdraws support to Kenya in the next round of funding. The G...
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KNUN Secretary General Seth Panyako asks CS Kagwe to resign
By Zipporah Kariuki,
1236, August 30, 2020 (EAT)
The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Secretary-General, Seth Panyako has asked Health CS Mutahi Kagwe to resign. Speaking in Kakamega on Sunda...
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COVID-19 in Kenya: Five dead, 246 new cases as caseload rises to 32,803
By Ian Omondi,
1619, August 28, 2020 (EAT)
The Ministry of Health on Tuesday announced that the country’s COVID-19 cases rose to 32,803 after 246 more people tested positive for the disease f...
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COVID-19 scandal: Mudavadi wants President Kenyatta to form Judicial commission of inquiry
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1518, August 23, 2020 (EAT)
ANC Party leader Musalia Mudavadi has called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to form a judicial commission of inquiry to probe the alleged theft and misap...
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KEMSA scandal: USAID, Global Fund threaten to withdraw Ksh.400B
By Sam Ogina,
2228, August 20, 2020 (EAT)
Two key donors have threatened to withdraw up to Ksh.400 billion earmarked for Kenya following the latest COVID-19 scandal linked to a government agen...
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CS Kagwe: Not everyone is an expert on COVID-19
By Citizen Reporter,
1331, July 29, 2020 (EAT)
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has decried false claims doing rounds on social media on how to treat COVID-19. This comes hours after a controversial video...
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Social media giants remove Dr Stella Immanuel video over false coronavirus claims on hydroxychloroquine
By CNN,
1158, July 29, 2020 (EAT)
A video featuring Dr Stella Immanuel alongside colleagues from America's Frontline Doctors making false and dubious claims related to the coronavirus ...
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US Marine assigned to President Trump’s helicopter unit tests positive for coronavirus
By CNN,
838, July 24, 2020 (EAT)
A US Marine assigned to Marine Helicopter Squadron One, the unit responsible for transporting the President, has tested positive for coronavirus. T...
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Karen Hospital CEO speaks out on claims of negligence
By Citizen Reporter,
1808, July 20, 2020 (EAT)
The Karen Hospital has rubbished claims of negligence saying the facility has robust policy guidelines when dealing with any patient or next of kin. ...
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Bill Gates calls for COVID-19 meds to go to people who need them, not ‘highest bidder’
By Reuters,
1435, July 12, 2020 (EAT)
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called for COVID-19 drugs and an eventual vaccine to be made available to countries and people that need them mo...
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