Ignoring child abuse – The Rotherham scandal.
In the ‘Rotherham scandal’ as it is being referred to, a total of 1,400 girls, some as young as 11 years were sexually abused from 1997 to 2013. It is shocking to fathom child
Ebola Heroes
It is amazing how every crisis has a hero who puts their own interests down for the sake of another. Ebola is no different. Whereas most of us would rather be miles away from the i
Kenya is wrong on Ebola
On 13th August – the World Health Organization issued a statement putting Kenya on the list of ‘high risk’ countries for Ebola transmission. Reason being that Ken
A different look at HIV transmission
Did you see the DN2 cover story in yesterday’s (5th August 2014) Daily Nation ? It was about the risk of HIV spreading from the homosexual to heterosexual world by bisexuals. The
Poisoning in little children
When little ones learn to crawl, everything they come across has to be tasted. The tongue seems to be their most effective way of exploring the world. When my friends and I had tod
The child molester’s tricks
The preliminary results from of the Kenya Aids Indicator Survey 2012 are out. The results look good – on the whole HIV has gone down in all of Kenya, except Nyanza. http://nascop
Health, demons and superstition
If you were to believe some people, the devil lurks in every corner. When a common cold is spreading in this cold season – there are people ‘binding the devil’ and praying th
EBOLA – Why the WHO is scared
The latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease has spread further, infecting and killing more people than ever before. Past epidemics have been restricted to single countries but this
Fighting FGM- Part II
The female circumcision debate has heated up in the media and in parliament . I have followed the discussion in The Daily Nation and there are some rather interesting tit bits. Tak
Fighting FGM – part 1
I was caught – as I always am – by the small little articles that are squashed into the briefs in ‘The Daily Nation’. I saw this little one about a campaign aimed at ta