Ruth Awuora lost sense of hearing at 12 but Vihiga’s heroine has redefined deafness as a call to duty
Ruth Awuora’s PhD research focuses on helping pre-lingual deaf children and children who are born deaf or became deaf shortly after birth become successful in life.
Health practitioners union piles pressure on Kenya’s health minister to harmonise UHC salaries
Speaking during a meeting with public health officers drawn from Garissa County, the national General Secretary of the Kenya Environmental Health and Public Health practitioners (KEHPHPU) Brown Ashira said the national government had enough time to allocate money for the nurses’ absorption.
Poverty, drug and substance abuse fuelling defilement in Kenya, public tells gender-based violence taskforce
Speaking at the same event, Makueni County Commissioner (CC) Duncan Darusi said that the information the public would give would inform the government on the policy to make in tackling the vices dogging the country.
How deadly gangsters traded crime for food production in Nairobi slum: ‘When police bullet took my brother, I knew I had to change’
Some two million people or 40 per cent of Nairobi’s population of five million people, live in informal settlements, according to CFK Africa, a non-governmental organisation that runs health and poverty reduction programs in such neighbourhoods and is familiar with Vision Bearerz’ work.
EAC principal secretaries meeting in Kisumu draws up strategy for Lake Victoria conservation
Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) Executive Secretary Masinde Bwire said pollution, unsustainable agriculture, land degradation, invasive weeds and illegal fishing have drastically affected the lake’s health and the well-being of those who depend on it.
WHO promotes scientist being investigated in US for deceptions and fraud on origins of Covid
US was the biggest contributor to the WHO’s budget. US law requires one year’s notice and the payment of outstanding fees upon withdrawing from the WHO. That means the final full withdrawal will take effect in early 2026. Payment of those fees remains “outstanding,” Reuters reported.
Chickens coming home to roost: Scientists and doctors behind Covid origins con face corruption invstigation, Fauci features as perpetrator
After the paper’s publication on March 17, 2020, Collins promoted the paper in the March 2020 edition of the NIH Director’s Blog. And on May 21, 2020, the NIH finalised a $1.88 million grant to Andersen and the Scripps Research Institute relating to pandemic preparedness in West Africa.
Starved of time for love and weighed down by books, how PhD students enjoy snatches of romance
Is lasting love more likely if you date only other scientists? How much should you talk about your research on a first date? Researchers lift the lid on their experiences of when science meets affairs of the heart. When Karen Arellano moved to Spain from Mexico in 2020 to start...
Gold rush: How exposure to mercury, which causes irreversible brain damage and loss of vision, is a disaster in Senegal
A 2018 Duke University-led study found mercury levels in soils, sediments and water near artisanal gold mining villages in southeastern Senegal that exceeded safety thresholds set by the World Health Organization and US Environmental Protection Agency by 10 to 100 times.
Environmental racism and ethnic nepotism in Uganda are outcomes of Museveni’s apartheid-style governance
Ethnic nepotism is integral to racism and, like environmental racism, it promotes apartheid style leadership, governance and lifestyles whereby one ethnic group captures virtually all civic spaces, leadership and governance with other ethnic groups effectively excluded from leadership, governance and business and only act second fiddle to those of the ethnic group in power.
