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Trump threatens permanent freeze of WHO funding, review of U.S. membership
By Reuters,
948, May 19, 2020 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improveme...
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COVID pandemic blocks shipments of children’s vaccines
By VOA,
320, May 3, 2020 (EAT)
The U.N. Children’s Fund warns that COVID-19 mitigation measures are preventing the shipment of vaccines to dozens of developing countries, putting ...
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WHO chief warns of malaria spike in Africa
By VOA,
1159, May 1, 2020 (EAT)
The World Health Organization (WHO) chief warned Wednesday that border closures and trade disruptions due to COVID-19 precautions could cause malaria ...
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U.S. government to provide Ksh.705 million to Kenya’s COVID-19 Response
By Citizen Reporter,
1126, April 28, 2020 (EAT)
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has committed $6.6 million (Ksh.705 million) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) activit...
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It takes about Ksh.100 billion and 7 years to develop a vaccine – KEMRI
By Waihiga Mwaura,
1116, April 27, 2020 (EAT)
Did you know that manufacturing a vaccine that could be widely and safely used by human beings of different genetic makeups could cost nearly one bill...
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Scientists using sewage to measure the prevalence of Covid-19
By CNN,
944, April 27, 2020 (EAT)
As the need for widespread Covid-19 testing grows, officials are looking to flush out hidden cases of the virus by examining sewage. Groups of scie...
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Rtd. Judge Daniel Aganyanya dies after suffering heart attack
By Citizen Reporter,
1037, January 18, 2020 (EAT)
Retired Judge Daniel Aganyanya died at the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu after suffering a heart attack, the family said on Friday night. The 82-year...
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Zambia reports first polio case in 24yrs after vaccination gone wrong
By Imani Mitchelle,
1108, October 25, 2019 (EAT)
Zambia has reported its first local case of polio since 1995. A 2 year old boy was paralyzed by a virus derived from the vaccine, VOA reported on W...
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Seven Kavonokia sect members arrested, claim census is satanic
By Wangui Ngechu,
910, August 29, 2019 (EAT)
Seven members of the Kavonokia sect were on Wednesday night arrested in Tharaka Nithi for refusing to give information to enumerators. According to...
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Man, wife arrested for beating up census team in Kisumu
By Allan Obiero,
1125, August 26, 2019 (EAT)
A man and his wife are being held at Kisumu Central Police Station after attacking a chief and village elder who had accompanied census officers at th...
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WHO panel decides not to declare international Ebola emergency
By Reuters,
1944, June 16, 2019 (EAT)
A World Health Organization panel decided on Friday not to declare an international emergency over Congo’s Ebola outbreak despite its spread to Ugan...
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WHO says Ebola outbreak not yet global emergency
By VOA,
1027, June 15, 2019 (EAT)
The World Health Organization decided on Friday not to declare an international public health emergency over the Ebola outbreak, despite its recent sp...
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WHO counts down Africa polio clock despite fears of new outbreak
By Reuters,
910, May 29, 2019 (EAT)
Africa could be declared free of endemic “wild” polio early next year if a strain last seen in Nigeria almost three years ago does not resurface, ...
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Malawi becomes 1st nation to immunize kids against malaria
By VOA,
2036, April 24, 2019 (EAT)
The World Health Organization says Malawi has become the first country to begin immunizing children against malaria, using the only licensed vaccine t...
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Ebola spread concentrated in Congo, not a wider emergency: WHO
By Reuters,
1050, April 13, 2019 (EAT)
An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that has killed more than 700 people and is continuing to spread does not constitute an...
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India, Southeast Asia to mark five years of being polio-free
By VOA,
2100, March 25, 2019 (EAT)
The World Health Organization says that on March 27, India's 1.3 billion people and the entire WHO Southeast Asia region will celebrate five years of ...
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From flying toilets to ‘froggers’ – Kenya struggles with slum waste
By Reuters,
1225, March 9, 2019 (EAT)
Most of Patrick ‘Moreno’ Osunda’s neighbours curse when the rains make the latrines overflow. For him, it’s the smell of money. Osunda is...
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China: Tests of possibly tainted medical product show no HIV
By Reuters,
1139, February 8, 2019 (EAT)
China is investigating a manufacturer of medical products following reports that it sold human immunoglobulin for intravenous injection that had possi...
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Chinese police begin new probe into expired polio vaccines
By Reuters,
943, January 15, 2019 (EAT)
Police in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu have begun an investigation after at least 145 children received expired polio vaccines, the Global Ti...
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145 babies given expired polio vaccine as concerns surge over made-in-China products
By Agencies,
1014, January 11, 2019 (EAT)
More than 100 children were given an expired polio vaccine in China, reports from State media said. According to South China Morning Post, 145 babi...
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