The latest World Health Organization (WHO) report says that 30 per cent of most medicines in Africa are counterfeits. The drugs are said to be from India and China. Kenya Association of Pharmaceutical Industry KAPI’s Cathy Otieno says that poverty, lack of an official supply contributes to

Peter Mikia started having kidney problem’s back in 2006. When he started experiencing heart pains and thought he had a heart condition but several checkups and examinations confirmed that he had kidney inflammation. The father of two luckily had a kidney transplant a year later but last ye

Nairobi Family Support Services over the years has been working towards rehabilitation of children with disabilities in Nairobi West District, mainly in the low-income areas like Kibera, Dagoretti, Kawangware and Waithaka. NFSS has partnered with Handicap International Kenya/Somalis programme to

The National Quality Control Laboratory for Drugs and Medical Services has called for stringent measures to curb distribution of counterfeit drugs. US Ambassador Michael Rannenberger said a lot of money which both the manufacturers and government budget for to produce genuine medicine is lost due

National Quality Control Laboratory director Hezekiah Chepkwony says the much hyped herbal based products presented as food supplements and medicines might be unsafe, since their safety standards have not been established, adding that testing these products is outside their scope as they are regi

Assistant chief pharmacist Edward Abwao blames lenient sentences by courts and porous borders for frustrating the war on counterfeit drugs in the country.

African ministers for Finance, Planning and Economic Development have pledged to commit more resources to the provision of healthcare. This is in recognition of the fact that a healthy nation is key to the economic growth and development of any country. 

The physically challenged members of society in Kenya are proving that disability is not inability through United Disability Empowerment In Kenya (UDEK) which has enabled many physically challenged people access information, while being taught among other things, issues of governance, human right