Kenya: Fighting to thrive beyond opioid addiction
August 16, 2024Kiambu ranks fifth out of the 47 counties in Kenya, with high numbers of people who use drugs (PWUD). PWUD form part of key populations, who have four times more HIV prevalence in Kenya compared to the general population. In...
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Kenya: Raging floods raise the risk of cholera and malaria
July 12, 2024Raging floods have hit Kenya, killing nearly 200 people and displacing tens of thousands in Nairobi and other parts of the country, as heavy rainfall continues to batter the country since March. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Kenya started...
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Kenya: Reimagining a patient centered model of care in the management of Diabetes and Hypertension
May 21, 2024Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, Epilepsy, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, among others, account for up to 39 in every 100 deaths in Kenya. In 2019 an internal review in the inpatient department at the Homa Bay Country...
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Why is cholera killing hundreds across the Horn of Africa when it is so preventable?
July 14, 2023Cholera outbreaks are occurring with increasing frequency, and lasting for longer, across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Tetiana Gaviuk, communications manager of the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) questions in this piece why the death toll from...
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Kenya: Everyone is welcome at MSF’s youth-friendly health services in Mombasa
July 13, 2023When an MSF team working in the Kenyan city of Mombasa discovered that there were significant gaps in healthcare for adolescents and young people, they decided to do something about it. The assessment they conducted in May 2021 revealed that,...
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MSF warns of looming health catastrophe in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps
May 30, 2023Nairobi, 30 May 2023 – More funding is urgently needed to avert a looming health catastrophe in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. A cholera outbreak in the camps has affected...
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Kenya: Record admissions at MSF hospital in Dagahaley, Dadaab, as humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate
January 24, 2023Hospital admissions of children suffering from severe malnutrition have spiked in Dagahaley, one of three refugee camps in the Dadaab refugee complex, amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the overcrowded camps, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In 2022, MSF treated a...
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Malnutrition remains high as drought continues in Kenya
May 21, 2022In Northeast Kenya, an ongoing drought is raging on following three consecutive seasons of failed rains, making an already dire food insecurity situation worse. Marsabit County is now reporting high or above-usual rates of acute malnutrition. If medical and humanitarian assistance provided...
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Kenya: Shut out and forgotten, refugees in Dadaab appeal for dignity
November 18, 2019Dimming prospects of lasting solutions amid continued insecurity in Somalia and ever-shrinking resettlement slots have locked refugees in Kenya's Dadaab camps in conditions of vulnerability and dependency. With severe mobility constraints and limited livelihood options, humanitarian assistance continues to be a...
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