Seated on her bed at a maternity clinic in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, Daruno Abdi, a mother of six, watches other mothers breastfeed their newborns. She has been here for the past three days and can’t wait for her turn to deliver her baby. Daruno fled conflict and famine in her country Somalia. She never expected to […]
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Richard Smith: Trying to save the forests of Western Kenya
Until very recently the Western Highlands of Kenya (once known as the White Highlands) were thick with forest, but many of those forests have been cut down. A friend in her mid 20s pointed out to me fields on the edge of Eldoret, the main city in the region, that were forest when she was […]
Richard Smith: Adding treatment of hypertension to HIV programmes in rural Kenya
The biggest problem with treating hypertension in rural Kenya is lack of drugs. Health workers are plentiful, and there is an impressive health system—but drugs are scarce. I learnt this when I visited the hospital in Eldoret, a small city in the West of Kenya, and a close by community clinic. My colleagues and I […]