Kenya ranks 13^th out of the World Health Oorganization’s 22 high TB burden countries and has the fifth-highest in Africa. There are an estimated 12,000 TB-infected children younger than 14, representing 11 per cent of all infections. Kenya’s government has released guidelin

Nyanza province accounts for 20 per cent of tuberculosis cases due to high prevalence rate of HIV infection. Nyanza stands at 14.2 per cent compared to the national average of seven per cent with Suba district having the highest.

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.

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

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

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

Somali communities in Wajir, Mandera and Garissa have over the years treated curable infections like tuberculosis as dangerous diseases that lack treatment and whose carriers are regarded as cursed people. According to TB coordinator in northern Kenya, Mr. Abdi Bashey, the disease has spread to e