By Science Africa correspondent Kenya becomes the tenth country in Africa to eliminate Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health concern. The other countries that have…
Post-crash care: mending more than bones
By Dzifa Tetteh Tay What started as a normal day for a 14-year-old Junior High School student in the year 2020 at Bawdie near Bogoso in the Western Region ended…
Protecting Precious Cargo: Uganda’s Safe Zones Shielding School Children from Road Crashes
By Catherine Nambi The introduction of safe school zones has sparked a transformative wave in road safety, significantly reducing road crashes and ensuring the safety of school-going children and pedestrians.…
TAMING MLIMA KITONGA: PIONEERING SOLUTIONS FOR SAFER ROADS IN TANZANIA
By Naomi William Jasseda THE Tanzam Highway is a paved international truck road that spans approximately 2400 km from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Lusaka, Zambia. The route passes through the…
Surviving cholera: How Nakuru’s slum residents are fighting the disease
By Francis Mureithi In late 2022, 24-year-old Fauzia Ngina from the Kwa Rhonda slums in Nakuru came close to losing her life from cholera without knowing she was infected. Living…
By Sharon Atieno The six-in-one (hexavalent) vaccine protecting against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis…