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By Elizabeth Wasunna, General Manager, AAR Healthcare Kenya Vaccines are among the most powerful public health tools ever developed. Over the past half-century, they have transformed the course of human life. Fewer children are lost today to preventable illness, fewer outbreaks devastate communities, and fewer hospital systems are pushed to the brink by diseases we already know […]
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Tanzania has made historic gains in maternal health, but the next frontier is child survival. With just 350 paediatric specialists serving a nation that welcomes more than 2.3 million newborns each year, health leaders say expanding specialist training is essential to protect the country’s youngest citizens and accelerate progress in reducing preventable child deaths. This […]
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By Joyce Chimbi For two days in a row back in 2018, four-year-old Calvin Otieno suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting, and his mother responded by giving him a salt solution. Pearl Otieno tells IPS that diarrhoea among children in Kibera, the largest urban informal settlement, is commonplace. A mixture of salt and warm water is often […]
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