Diabetes in children
The Daily Nation newspaper has today(30th March) published an article I wrote on childhood diabetes. http://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/DN2/Many-parents-unaware-that-their-chi
Date rape reporting for university students
Date rape affects many young women in their twenties, Jessica Ladd says there is a way to stop repeat offenders who make up 90% of date rape assailants.
NYS 1988 – Rape in every conflict
The trauma of the NYS violence when preparing for Moi day 1988 will be remembered by very few - it did not make it to press. Rape as a weapon of conflict continues to flourish unpu
Secondary school sexual violence
August 2015, 40 boys from St Patrick’s Boys High School had walked 6 kms to raid a girl’s dormitory at Sing’ore Girls High School. The boys were going to rape the girls. Let
International women’s day
Today – 8th March is International Women’s Day. It's a great time to reflect on gender inequality - which sometimes just feels overwhelming - but things are getting better fo
Childless on mother’s day
An estimated 80% of women who don't have children are 'childless by circumstance', rather than choice or medical reasons.
A sideways look at FGM
What if certain forms of childhood female genital alterations/mutilations were legalised? Would this be enough to bring the really horrid forms of FGM down? Two gynaecologists thin
Dr George Warimwe
Dr George Warimwe has developed a vaccine for Rift Valley Fever at the Jenner Institute in University of Oxford. If you are tempted to think that strong connections got him there,
Kenyan scientist develops a vaccine
Research to develop a vaccine for a disease first identified in Kenya, is now being led, at one of the highest institutes of learning in the world, by a Kenyan.
Zika – what is this all about?
Zika means bury in Swahili but this is not what it does. Zika does not kill. Instead children are born with underdeveloped brains and a tough life ahead for them and their families