Female genital mutilation is a practice deeply rooted in cultural traditions around the world. The World Health Organization defines it as comprising all procedures that involve removal of parts of the external female genital ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Lowering body mass index (BMI) could potentially save millions of lives globally by preventing non-communicable diseases new Griffith University research shows.
Jul 11, 2022
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Lucy Akinyi's three children were infected with malaria so often she would be at their local health clinic in western Kenya every other week getting them treated.
Feb 3, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have been awarded $2.6 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health to study how pandemic-related stressors influence sexual behavior and risk of sexually ...
Dec 2, 2021
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Combining data on antibody prevalence, PCR test results, genomic surveillance and population mobility from smartphones has allowed infectious disease modelers to explain the evolution of the first three COVID-19 waves that ...
Oct 12, 2021
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The isolated Suba and Luo communities of Mfangano Island on Lake Victoria in Western Kenya experience some of the highest maternal and neonatal mortality rates in East Africa. To understand factors at the heart of this complex ...
Oct 6, 2021
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It took 15 years for psychologist Elizabeth Mutunga's father to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, after he began forgetting what day it was.
Sep 23, 2021
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Kenya is grappling with the COVID-19 Delta variant, which recently resulted in the western part of the country being put into lockdown. It now threatens the capital, Nairobi.
Aug 2, 2021
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Kenya's health ministry says two men have tested positive for a coronavirus strain first detected in South Africa, the first such cases detected in the East African country.
Jan 21, 2021
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A team of researchers from institutions in the U.K. and Kenya has been conducting research to explain Kenya's comparatively low COVID-19 infection and death rates. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group ...
