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NAIROBI, Kenya,16 Oct – INTERPOL and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a cooperation agreement to address threats where public health and security overlap, from falsified medicines to the suspected misuse of dangerous materials. The agreement sets up a framework that pairs INTERPOL’s law enforcement expertise with WHO’s public health leadership. The aim is…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 18 – Kenya has confirmed four additional cases of Ebola Virus Disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus, raising the country’s total to seven confirmed cases, including one death. The new infections were detected among people already under quarantine after exposure to the initial case. The Ministry of Health said the four latest…
NAIROBI, Kenya,Oct 16 – Kenya has confirmed two additional cases of Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease, bringing the total number of infections to three, including one death, as health authorities intensify surveillance and contact tracing to prevent the virus from spreading into the wider community. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the two new patients, a…
Health ministries, pharmaceutical donors and implementing partners met in Geneva last month to tackle the logistical problems that slow the delivery of medicines for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), and to start planning for a post-2030 world in which donations and funding may look different. The World Health Organization (WHO) hosted three back-to-back meetings on 22-25…
NAIROBI, Kenya,Oct 16 – The World Health Organization has released a new online toolkit aimed at making tuberculosis research include pregnant and lactating women, a group long left out of TB drug and vaccine trials. The TB in pregnancy and lactation research toolkit is meant for researchers, trial sponsors, ethics committees, regulators and others involved…
Each year Kenya reports bigger tree-planting numbers: more seedlings in the ground, more volunteers turning out, more restoration goals declared. Environmental defenders now want to know what the national tally leaves out: how much standing forest is being lost while the planting is celebrated? More than 200 Kenyans took that question to the Ministry of…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 6 – More than 200 Kenyans marched to the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry on Tuesday and handed over a petition with over 60,000 signatures demanding that the government halt the destruction of public forests and present a forest protection plan on Mazingira Day this Saturday. The march was led…
NAIROBI, Kenya,Oct 6 – Kenya’s veterinary doctors are asking Parliament to intervene in what they describe as a 19-year pay and internship disparity, warning that continued neglect of the profession could undermine the country’s ability to control zoonotic diseases and protect food security. The Kenya Veterinary Association (KVA) wants veterinary doctors to be accorded remuneration…
Health ministry traces 28 contacts and 27 fellow air passengers and crew after Bundibugyo virus case arrives from DRC via Kampala NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 6 – Kenya has confirmed its first imported case of Ebola (Bundibugyo virus disease), and the patient has died, Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale announced on Tuesday. The patient was a…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 4 – At the Sarit Expo Centre this week, the opening of the 9th Kenya International Industrial Expo and Kenya Investment & Trade Fair carried the usual trappings of a trade show: rows of exhibition stands, business cards changing hands, ribbon-cutting formality. But beneath the ceremony, the two opening addresses one from…
