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Kenya’s Community Health Promoters Face Hidden Mental Health Crisis, Study Finds africasciencenews.org/kenyas… via @afriscience

Kenya’s Community Health Promoters Face Hidden Mental Health Crisis, Study Finds

By Herman Opondo NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s efforts to strengthen universal health coverage (UHC) could be undermined by a largely overlooked crisis among the very workers expected to deliver healthc...

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Ebola: DR Congo receives Roche lab equipment africasciencenews.org/ebola-… via @afriscience @Roche #Ebola

Ebola: DR Congo receives Roche lab equipment

Roche Diagnostics has provided two molecular testing instruments to the Institut National de Santé Publique (INSP), which is supporting the DRC’s Ministry of Health-led Ebola response. The delivery...

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From Half-Cut Books to Life-Saving Alerts: Kenya’s #DigitalHealth Shift africasciencenews.org/from-h… via @afriscience

From Half-Cut Books to Life-Saving Alerts: Kenya’s Digital Health Shift

By Lenah Bosibori For years, many patients in Kenya carried a half-cut exercise book to health facilities. Health workers used it to record patients’ names, diagnoses, and treatments. Patients had to...

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Nigeria: Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu and the African moment in #globalcancer leadership africasciencenews.org/nigeri… via @afriscience #Cancer @uicc #Nigeria

Nigeria: Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu and the African moment in global cancer leadership

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Delayed Referrals, Knowledge Gaps Fuel Maternal Deaths in Kenya africasciencenews.org/delaye… via @afriscience @LenahBosibori #MNCH @MOH_Kenya

Delayed Referrals, Knowledge Gaps Fuel Maternal Deaths in Kenya

By Lenah Bosibori Delayed referrals, long distances to hospitals and limited awareness of pregnancy danger signs remain major contributors to maternal deaths in Kenya, health experts have warned. Dr...

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Eastern Africa horticulture industry launches platform to foster seamless trade africasciencenews.org/easter… via @afriscience

Eastern Africa horticulture industry launches platform to foster seamless trade

By Africa Science News Horticulture industry players drawn from nine Eastern African Countries on Tuesday, September.22 launched a platform to promote seamless trade in floriculture across the...

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Africa urged to integrate care for #TBSurvivors as lung disease persists after treatment africasciencenews.org/africa… via @afriscience

Africa urged to integrate care for TB survivors as lung disease persists after treatment

By Henry Neondo Scientists and health stakeholders are calling for African health systems to move beyond TB treatment and provide integrated long-term care for survivors facing post-tuberculosis lung...

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Africa already has answers to its #health challenges africasciencenews.org/africa… via @afriscience

Africa already has answers to its health challenges

By Phenyo Mokgothu Africa does not have to look beyond its borders for every answer to its health challenges. Much of the knowledge, expertise and data needed to find solutions already exist on the...

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Kenya’s Lung Health Services Face Major Gaps Beyond #Tuberculosis africasciencenews.org/kenyas… via @afriscience #TB #Health #TLH @KEMRI_Kenya @MOH_Kenya @LungHealthFdn

Kenya’s Lung Health Services Face Major Gaps Beyond Tuberculosis

By Henry Neondo NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenya’s efforts to tackle respiratory diseases need to move beyond tuberculosis (TB), with a new assessment revealing significant gaps in the availability of equipme...

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Sick and Jobless: Kenya’s Hidden Struggles of #SickleCell Survivors africasciencenews.org/sick-a… via @afriscience @MOH_Kenya #Health @LenahBosibori

Sick and Jobless: Kenya’s Hidden Struggles of Sickle Cell Survivors

By Lenah Bosibori NAIROBI, Kenya — For many young Kenyans, finding a job after college or university is difficult. For people living with sickle cell disease, however, getting a job can be only the...

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Horticulture Stakeholders to Meet in Nairobi to Tackle Regional Trade Hurdles africasciencenews.org/hortic… via @afriscience

Horticulture Stakeholders to Meet in Nairobi to Tackle Regional Trade Hurdles

By Lenah Bosibori NAIROBI, Kenya — For farmers growing fruits, vegetables and flowers across Eastern Africa, getting their produce to market can be as challenging as growing it. High freight costs,...

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After USAID Pullback, African Pension Funds Eye Healthcare as an Investment Opportunity africasciencenews.org/after-… via @afriscience @USAID #Pension @HealthCapAfrica #Health

After USAID Pullback, African Pension Funds Eye Healthcare as an Investment Opportunity

By Africa Scienc News With international donor funding for healthcare becoming increasingly uncertain following the pullback of USAID and other foreign assistance programmes, African financial...

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Kenya Urged to Build Stronger Pathway for Traditional Medicine africasciencenews.org/kenya-… via @afriscience #TraditionalMedicine #Health @MOH_Kenya @LenahBosibori

Kenya Urged to Build Stronger Pathway for Traditional Medicine

By Lenah Bosibori Kenya must develop a stronger pathway for integrating traditional medicine into the formal health system while ensuring safety, scientific evidence, and protection of indigenous...

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African Agricultural Universities Face Sustainability Test as TAGDev 2.0 Seeks to Transform Youth Skills and Food Systems #Agriculture #Universities africasciencenews.org/africa… via @afriscience

African Agricultural Universities Face Sustainability Test as TAGDev 2.0 Seeks to Transform Youth...

By Henry Neondo Africa’s efforts to transform its agricultural sector could increasingly depend on whether universities and technical institutions can move beyond traditional classroom-based training...

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El Niño returns, Africa’s food systems need better intelligence africasciencenews.org/s-el-n… via @afriscience

El Niño returns, Africa’s food systems need better intelligence

By Zoë Karl-Waithaka, Managing Director and Partner, BCG Kenya As warnings about a strengthening El Niño mount, governments, agribusinesses and farmers across Africa are once again preparing for...

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Kenyatta University hosts the African Universities #ClimateWeek2026 africasciencenews.org/africa… #AUCW2026 #ClimateChange @kunec250 @KenyattaUni
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One Problem, Seven Job Titles, and the Capital Trap Beneath Them All africasciencenews.org/one-pr… via @afriscience

One Problem, Seven Job Titles, and the Capital Trap Beneath Them All

Across African cross-border payments, seven different executives believe they are fighting seven different problems. They are wrong. They are fighting the same enemy, and it is sitting on their...

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