Community Health Workers (CHWs) bolster health workers and improve the living standards for vulnerable populations especially the vulnerable children (VC). However high attrition rates among CHWs resulting from the challenges ...

The adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) in the medical field in the form of electronic medical records (EMR) systems had been promoted as a way to reduce cost, increase effectiveness and improve the ...

Occupational injury is any bodily damage, that may be fatal or non-fatal in nature, resulting from a work-related accident. Though preventable, these injuries have resulted in serious socio-economic consequences that have ...

Globally, 37.6 million people living with HIV around the world, 67% live in sub-Saharan Africa. Out of the 200,000 new diagnoses of HIV in Africa in 2021, young women and adolescent girls aged 15-24 made up 27% of those ...

Globally, pregnancy and childbirth are the primary causes of maternal deaths. Early and closely spaced pregnancies are associated with adverse health outcomes. In 2019, 86% of maternal mortalities occurred in low-income ...

In Kenya around a million people are pushed to poverty annually paying for healthcare out of pocket. Prepayment and risk pooling has been used to avoid the risk of paying for healthcare from household income at time of ...

Prevention of unplanned pregnancies is one of the four approaches in the prevention of MTCT of HIV. Even with the constant availability of modern contraceptives in the health facilities, 352 known HIV-positive women attending ...

Ending preventable perinatal mortality is one of the global public health priorities. Despite integrating World Health Organization’s essential maternal and newborn care package into Homa Bay County’s community health ...