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Health in Kenya. Tropical diseases, especially malaria and tuberculosis, have long been a public health problem in Kenya. In recent years, infection with the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ), which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), also has become a severe problem. Estimates of the incidence of infection differ widely.
Maternal and child healthcare. The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Kenya is 530. This is compared with 413.4 in 2008 and 452.3 in 1990. The under-5 mortality rate, per 1,000 births is 86 and the neonatal mortality as a percentage of under-5's mortality is 33. In Kenya the number of midwives per 100,000 live births is ...
Kenya had an estimated 5 million malaria cases and over 12,000 deaths reported in 2022, according to the World Health Organization. Most of those affected are children under 5 and pregnant women.
Although Kenya's economy is the largest and most developed in eastern and Central Africa, 16.1% (2023/2024) of its population lives below the international poverty line. [1] This severe poverty is mainly caused by economic inequality, government corruption and health problems. In turn, poverty also worsens these factors.
The medics are aware of the problems the strike is causing but argue that industrial action is necessary "to help the public get quality health care" in the long run, as their working conditions ...
Wellcome is a health research funding and advocacy foundation. The company had said in 2022 that it would invest about $500 million in the Kenya facility and supply as many as 500 million doses of ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Kenya on 12 March 2020, [3] with the initial cases reported in the capital city Nairobi and in the coastal area Mombasa .
The core functions of the Nursing Council of Kenya are to establish and improve standards of all branches of the nursing profession in all their aspects and to safeguard the interest of all nurses. The council establishes and continues to improve the standards of professional nursing and of health care within the community.