Are you OK? by Debra Riako
Today - the 10th October is mental health awareness day, a time for global directed focus on this issue that is speedily becoming the leading health issue of our time. And for toda
Health is made at home, hospitals are for repairs
Hospitals can help heal the body but it is rarely the place where we build our emotional and mental well-being. As I take a month of blogging break - I urge you to make your homes
Fertility
Once a community has enough food and medicine for its children, when girls complete secondary school and child survival is high – there is less pressure from everyone to breed.
Historical child sexual abuse
When someone asks – ‘Why have you taken twenty years to report this abuse ? The words are spoken in a manner that suggests that the woman is lying - ‘What are you hoping to g
Doctoral training – let’s think it through
Although the Commission for University Education (CUE) may complain about the poor rate of enrollment for PhD’s – there are many reasons why the academic path is not very entic
Teenagers and sexual orientation
More good could be done by the psychological and religious communities if they were to band together and help sexual minorities shed their self-hatred and find a respected place in
Terror – a worldwide crisis requiring a global solution.
In the face of terror – we all react in a very similar fashion. The initial shock and the intense coming together – the show of love and support. But then follows suspicion and
Kala azar – what kind of disease is this?
Yesterday (30th May 2017) – there was a report in the papers about an outbreak of kala azar in Marsabit. Like me, you may never have come across it - so what is kala azar?
