Kenya Health News

Your body shape tells a lot about your risk of getting diabetes We all know that being overweight is bad for our health, but does it matter where the weight is stored? Take a look at your family: are you...

NAIROBI, JULY 31, 2009: An organisation determined to help poor women overcome obstetric fistula, a condition affecting women during prolonged labour has launched new toll-free numbers to fight the disease. Freedom from Fistula Foundation (FFF), on July 23, 2009 launched...

At least 56 building owners in Kilindini district have been arrested for allegedly failing to comply with public health regulations. At the same time, Kilindini Public Health Officer John Ndungu said his team arrested over 60 vendors for hawking foodstuffs...

The address could be mistaken for an HIV awareness lecture, but is part of a sermon being delivered by Sheikh Harun Rashid, a Muslim scholar at the Isiolo Jamia Mosque in Kenya's Eastern Province. Muslim leaders in Kenya have often...

The drugs’ regulator in the country on Monday disowned its presentation to Parliament over fake drugs in circulation. The unprecedented move came after the committee poked holes into the report saying it was incomplete and flawed. The action by the...

WHO now advises countries to phase out use of Stavudine as it has side-effects HIV-positive patients using a drug that the World Health Organisation says causes long term irreversible side-effects will have to make do with it until the government...