Two TB patients from Nandi were arrested two months ago for failing to take their medication. Their arrest is a lesson in the quest to treat and prevent TB infections. However, they secured their release after intervention of two non-governmental organizations advocating for basic rights of peopl

As poverty and TB are closely interrelated in Kenya, where those who live below the poverty line constitute over half the country’s population, the government must roll out a program to address the disease by combating poverty.

There is a shortage of the antiretroviral drugs despite repeated government reassurances. A civil society group says thousands of people living with HIV cannot access ARV’s in public hospital, and has accused the government of being in denial over the issue. 

Kiambu is leading in tuberculosis prevalence in central but the HIV/AIDS preference is said to have gone down, the Director of Public Health Dr. Ephantus Maree said. Kiambu has many people who are multi-drug resistant which make the government use between sh 1.5 to Sh2.3 to treat one person with

The pomp and colour associated with traditional ceremonies among the three main communities in Bungoma is set to diminish in the coming years due to hard economic times and HIV/ AIDS.

March 2011 marks the end of a two year treatment programme for 37 year old Eddie Chichi for multi drug resistant TB. The former disk jockey –turned hospital volunteer now gives counseling on the importance of seeking prompt medical attention before the disease progresses to a resistant stra

Public Health and Sanitation minister says her ministry has prepared a cabinet memorandum on a proposal to raise funds for HIV care through a special air fare tax after revelations that it was not feasible to depend entirely on donor funds.

According to a report by Medecins Sans Frontiers , multidrug resistant tuberculosis  is on the rise, but less than seven per cent of the 440,000 new cases reported each year worldwide receive treatment. But according to MSF, scientists have developed a new diagnostic test for MDR-TB which th