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Dec 17, 2023 | kassfm.co.ke | Chemtai Kirui

Sixty-three-year-old Community Health Volunteer, Emily (a pseudonym), has not had an easy adulthood. At the age of 46, she received a diagnosis of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) — an infection that attacks the body’s immune system. Following a period of denial and depression, she eventually accepted her HIV status and started living positively. However, two years later, in 2008, when she began feeling unwell, she visited the hospital, this time, she received a diagnosis of tuberculosis.

Dec 3, 2023 | kassfm.co.ke | Chemtai Kirui

DUBAI – In an effort to address the escalating health risks posed by climate change—on physical, mental, and community health, the U.N. COP28 climate summit held its first ‘Health Day’ today, with discussions on the role of climate action in fortifying global health resilience. Healthcare professionals, activists, and representatives from countries and organizations, who campaigned to have the health conversation at Climate talks, called it a ‘historic moment’, that is well overdue.

Dec 2, 2023 | kassfm.co.ke | Chemtai Kirui

“As a doctor, I’m deeply concerned about how climate change is impacting my patients. It is unhealthy for my children and their future,” said Dr. Mary Rice, a pulmonary critical care physician and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Nov 23, 2023 | kassfm.co.ke | Chemtai Kirui

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4zdNEr74Z0As ocean temperatures rise, with scientists suggesting that 2022 was the hottest year on record for the ocean, prehistoric sites along Kenya’s low-lying coastal zone are under imminent threat. Among these sites is Jumba la Mtwana, located in Kilifi County. The foundation of this 14th-century treasure, designated as a national monument in 1982, has been exposed to flooding and erosion.

Oct 16, 2023 | kassfm.co.ke | Chemtai Kirui

Nyeri County, October, 2023 — When Chrispus Karua Kahungu was a school-going boy growing up in Mweiga ward in Kieni sub county, he and his friends could only hope to get home from school safely. The wildlife roamed freely in the area, and human-wildlife conflict was at its peak— it is with the construction of the Aberdare fence, that everything transformed.