Scores of stakeholders involved in provision of reproductive health services converged at the Louis Leakey Auditorium of the National Museum in Nairobi, to witness the launch of “KADI”, a documentary film of the Reproductive Health –Out put Based Aid (RH-OBA) programme.  This is a programme supported jointly by the German Development Bank KfW and Ministry [...]

For the second time, student peer educators (PE) of 12 secondary schools from Mathare Slums took a break from their busy school schedule to participate in an “Educative Forum” at the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) grounds in Nairobi. The event, which took place on July 13, 2012, saw 192 peer educators of 12 AIDS [...]

District health facilities/stores continue to bear the brunt of insufficient Family Planning (FP) supplies as compared to private and NGO facilities, which, are buffered by other sources. Key findings from the Kenya Urban Reproductive Health Supply Chain study indicate that contraceptive supply at national level is effective, unlike district stores occasioned by frequent stock outs [...]

In an effort to implement the Constitution in as far as health and particularly reproductive health is concerned, the Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) in collaboration with other stakeholders launched key documents to bridge identified gaps in reproductive health knowledge. The documents, which included the National Reproductive Tract Cancer Guidelines, the Maternal and Newborn Health [...]

A report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (2010) puts Kenya’s unmet need for Family Planning amongst those between 15-24 years at 49.6 per cent. This report compliments a rapid assessment by Pathfinder International, on Youth Friendly Services (YFS), which showed that young people throughout the world are changing their attitudes and behavior regarding [...]

A presentation on the increase in improved skilled birth attendance from 15 percent in 2010 to 43 percent in 2011 in Butere district, constituted part of the agenda at the recently concluded National Nurses Association of Kenya Conference. The presentation on the project to improve skilled birth attendance is an initiative of the GIZ Health [...]

It is now illegal to practice female circumcision, procure the services of a circumciser, or send somebody out of the country to undergo the illegal ‘cut’. The recent Presidential accent of the “Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Bill, 2010” has made the 1999 ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) into law. Offenders of this law [...]

A recently published report on Partnerships for Maternal Newborn and Child Health and the Countdown to 2015     indicates that Kenya is currently losing more than 7,000 women annually, a rate of 21 daily, to pregnancy related complications. However, a report by the the  Human Rights Watch shows that a greater focus on accountability in health facilities offering [...]

In many African settings, half of the total population of girls is pregnant before attaining age twenty; fewer girls than boys complete secondary school education and more girls than boys are unemployed. To improve the lives of adolescent girls in Kenya, purposeful investment in girls’ education and health is necessary. In a bid to realise [...]

Stakeholders in the health sector, on invitation of the United States Ambassador to Kenya, His Excellency Scott J. Gration  met to discuss strategies to help Kenya attain her health related Millennium Development Goals (MDG).  Ambassador Gration, who was sworn in as US Ambassador to Kenya in April 2011, expressed concern over the the poor performance [...]