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Treat Kenyans With Better Care at COVID-19 Facilities
PURITY NTHIANA People in COVID-19 quarantine facilities face a lot of stigma, and the pain of isolation is sometimes unbearable to the point that some of them even want to commit suicide. They face hostility and also harsh living conditions at the facilities. Despite testing negative for COVID-19, they have not
Parents Role in Ending Teen Pregnancies During Pandemic
BY PURITY NTHIANA COVID-19 will definitely complicate the efforts of reducing teen pregnancies in the country. With school suspended, religious meetings cancelled — youth programs have also been suspended in churches and other religious institutions — adolescents now have a lot of time at their disposal and could engage in
CONFERENCE: Health Providers Shun Youth in Informal Urban Settlements
NAIROBI, 17 February 2020 – Women and girls in informal urban settlements continue to bear the brunt of unsafe abortions from predatory quacks even as the government makes empty boardroom promises to improve the state of reproductive health in the country. This was one of the outcomes from the recently concluded 9th Africa
State Impunity a Danger to Mental Health of Kenyans
As the Mental Health Task Force makes its way across the country, collecting the views of Kenyans, we must also look at how the toxic state of Kenyan politics and government corruption is affecting our mental health. Depression is the most common mental illness in the world. In 2014, the
UPR REVIEW: Human Rights Council Reviews Kenya’s Reproductive Health Rights Record
NAIROBI, 22 January 2020 — Kenya’s human rights record will be under review tomorrow (Thursday 23, 2010) at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, with the reproductive health and rights of women and girls coming under the spotlight. The thirty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group