Statistics show that half of the 1.5 million women, who give birth annually, half deliver at home. This has therefore complicated the efforts of the government to effectively prevent newborns from contracting HIV. Women living with HIV are discriminated against in hospitals and are forced to give

According to National AIDS and STIs Control Programme NASCOP 45, 000 infants are estimated to be born with HIV every year. Experts however, say that this could be reversed if efforts are stepped up to reduce transmission of the virus from mother to child. Prevention of mother-to-child transmissio

The incidence of malaria in many African countries south of Sahara is rapidly falling. A research group has discovered that the mosquito carrying the malaria parasite has disappeared from villages without any organized mosquito control. Dan Meyrowitsch explains that the99 per cent fall in malaria

Treated mosquito nets are used in Kenya as a way of controlling malaria. However, a study in a Senegalese village showed that mosquitoes are rapidly developing a resistance to the key ingredient used to treat the nets. The research also revealed that nets reduced the immunity of adults and older

Alliance of Councilors against HIV/AIDS has petitioned chief officers in local authorities to set aside a budget to help in response to HIV/AIDS within their respective jurisdiction.

Medecins sans frontier Dagahaley hospital in Dadaab refugee camp poses a grim picture, as the influx of refugees has put a strain on the limited health facilities available forcing some patients to put up makeshift tents as wards. Currently 17 per cent of the children who come to the camp from So

The Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) newsletter indicates that men mostly from fishing communities, who have no time during the day, prefer to undergo the cut during the night. However studies have showed that older men prefer night circumcision when they are not likely to be seen by pe

Stem cell technology, where the umbilical cord blood is harvested at birth and stored for future body repairs and Nanomedicine a medical technology for the manipulation of matter at the smallest possible levels are already being sampled in Kenya. Last month Kenyan researchers started the nano dru