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Kenya, WHO launch bold initiative to transform Africa’s health emergency response

09 July 2022

Brazzaville/Nairobi – The Government of Kenya and the World Health Organization (WHO) held a ground-breaking ceremony today in Nairobi for a WHO Health Emergency Hub, which will include a Centre of Excellence for the Health Emergency Workforce, laying the cornerstone for a wider initiative that aims to change the way the continent handles emergencies.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros shake hands at the groundbreaking for launch of the WHO Emergency Hub in Nairobi for workforce development & maintaining stockpiles of medical and logistical supplies

Kenya and WHO launch bold initiative to transform Africa’s health emergency response...

09 July 2022

WHO team in a meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss the critical health response necessitated by the drought and food insecurity crisis in Horn of Africa

WHO intensifies response to looming health crisis in the greater Horn of Africa as ...

30 June 2022

The health risks in the region are increasing, while access to health care is deteriorating

Launch of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety

Kenya launches road safety initiative to reduce crashes

25 May 2022

Press Statement: Kenyan Government, World Health Organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies
launch new initiative to reduce road crash deaths

Road traffic crashes are a top-five cause of death for Kenyans between the ages of five and 70, and the leading killer of boys aged 15-19.

Kenyan lab boosting Africa’s genome surveillance

28 March 2022

Kilifi, Kenya – Amid the soft purr of the air conditioner and glinting LED screens, laboratory technicians inside a sprawling facility on the Kenyan coast peer into test tubes and pore through spreadsheets, hard at work to help propel Africa’s efforts to monitor and detect COVID-19 variants and boost pandemic response.

Launch of tobacco-free farms in Kenya

23 March 2022

Hundreds of farmers in Migori County, Kenya will break free from risky tobacco farming and transition to producing more sustainable crops, through the Tobacco-Free Farms Project being launched today.

A day in life of Kenya’s COVID-19 genomic sequencing team

18 March 2022

Ramping up COVID-19 vaccination among Kenya’s hard-to-reach communities

22 February 2022

When Kenya’s Ministry of Health set its sights on reaching 10 million people with the COVID-19 vaccination by the end of 2021, many people like Lilian Anyango were not afraid of the myths circulating about the harm it could cause.

Dr Adam Haji, WHO, and Wajir County team, access nomadic communities for Covid-19 vaccination in north-eastern Kenya recently

Valuable Community Response Lessons for 2022

31 December 2021

As 2022 begins, health experts in Kenya have enough to reflect and act on towards vaccine acceleration efforts and sustenance of COVID-19 preventive and safety measures.

No-cost diabetes care saving young lives in Kenya

12 November 2021

Tala, Kenya — Four years ago 15-year-old Simon Maingi was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, but only after several hospital visits. Many children with this condition, which requires daily insulin administration to survive, die before they are diagnosed, says Zacharia Ndegwa Muriuki, the head of Kenya’s National Diabetes Prevention Control Programme.

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