Hesborn Etyang

1 week ago | defrontera.org | Hesborn Etyang

Kenya has allowed the use of a drug that prevents excessive bleeding, the biggest killer of mothers during childbirth, to be administered at all health facilities in the latest push to deal with maternal mortalities in the country. To ensure quality, the government had restricted the use of the medicines that prevent life-threatening excessive bleeding during childbirth (post-partum haemorrhage, or PPH) to referral hospitals, Level 4 and above.

1 week ago | share.google | Hesborn Etyang

Kenya has allowed the use of a drug that prevents excessive bleeding, the biggest killer of mothers during childbirth, to be administered at all health facilities in the latest push to deal with maternal mortalities in the country. To ensure quality, the government had restricted the use of the medicines that prevent life-threatening excessive bleeding during childbirth (post-partum haemorrhage, or PPH) to referral hospitals, Level 4 and above.

4 weeks ago | peopledaily.digital | Hesborn Etyang

In the remote, nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana, menstruation remains shrouded in silence, shame, and deeply rooted cultural taboos. For many adolescent girls, a natural biological process often means isolation, missed opportunities, and trauma. In some villages, menstruating girls are still forced to stay in dry riverbeds or are barred from household chores due to the belief that periods are a curse. But change is underway.

1 month ago | defrontera.org | Hesborn Etyang

Measles, a virus labelled as “the world’s most contagious” by health experts, is endemic in Kenya—meaning it is now part of the diseases that regularly occur in the country—but it is making a deadly comeback amid funding cuts for vaccines, in what could add further strain to the disease burden of East Africa’s largest economy. The outbreaks bulletin from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that there have been nearly 3,000 cases of measles in Kenya in the past year.

1 month ago | defrontera.org | Hesborn Etyang

The people of Turkana, a county in northern Kenya, deeply value their livestock. They will do anything to protect their cattle, goats, camels and sheep from disease and the consequences of drought. Understanding this cultural dynamic, the county’s Health Department is now running joint clinics — for both people and livestock. Only a third (29%) of children in Turkana are fully vaccinated, well below 80%, the threshold recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).