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Edwin Inganji’s smartphone app quickly connects users in Nairobi to emergency services.

Feel unsafe? There’s an app for that

Kate Hodal -
A research team installs novel solar-powered mosquito traps on rural Rusinga Island in Western Kenya.

Beer and stinky feet could be a fatal combination – for...

Adri Kotze and Gitonga Njeru -
In many countries women allege they were sterilised without consent during or shortly after labour.

Forced sterilisations rob African women of more than just motherhood

Tabitha Griffith Saoyo -
More than 10% of TB cases in Kenya occur among children

Finally, TB pills for children

Cyrus Kinyungu -
A local youth group has been trained on how to safely remove the human waste that will become biofuel for cooking and heating.

Waste not, want not: Kenya turns sewage into cleaner, longer-burning fuel

Sophie Mbuguah -
Nurse Pauline dips into a medicines box. Pauline and her team travel hundreds of kilometres by camel to provide health services to Kenya's most remote villages

In rural Kenya, camel clinics bring much needed care to those...

Lionel Faull -
Young girls like those at Indupa Primary School near Kajiado face female circumcision.

​Women of the Maasai fight back for their daughters

Emanuela Zuccalà -
Members of the Women’s Network educate people on the harmful

​Uncut, unwed and cast out, but a better life awaited

Emanuela Zuccalà -
Sex workers can take a pill that significantly reduces the risk of HIV infection.

HIV-prevention pill: The deeply personal journey of a male sex worker...

Kiundu Waweru -
Diseases in Dadaab refugee camp can spread quickly

Camp closure is next health crisis

Melat Haille -
Healing business: Mental health patients help out in the photocopy and printing shop in Machakos

​The mentally ill are not alone in Kenya

Maina Waruru -
Post-partum pregnancy can be prevented through correct contraceptive use.

Five African states help women prevent pregnancy right after birth

Isaac Malonza -
What we learn on the playground about gender and violence may never be unlearned - and it could shape your child forever.

Sex, soccer and social media

Jennifer Amadi and Evans Odenyo -
A recent survey says that Kenyans and Ugandans must start eating healthily to avoid getting sick from lifestyle diseases.

Kenyans and Ugandans need to change their ways to arrest lifestyle...

Catherine Kyobutungi -
Keneth Ndua demonstrates his stove invention

Ndua’s stove keeps a lid on cholera in Kenya

Amy Green -
Most medical aids won't cover a new

Better maternity leave laws are needed to protect African mothers

Elizabeth Kimani-Murage -
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