Disease Prevention & NCDs
Cervical cancer screening: five barriers in rural Kenya
Kenya’s national cervical cancer screening coverage among women aged 18–69 has been reported at approximately 3.2%. Regional estimates range from 3%…
A national facility analysis covering 13,373 health facilities across all 47 Kenyan counties found that routine reporting completeness for diagnostic testing remained below 40%. That figure is an aggregate measure of what reached…
Disease Prevention & NCDs
Kenya’s national cervical cancer screening coverage among women aged 18–69 has been reported at approximately 3.2%. Regional estimates range from 3%…
Faith-Based Healthcare
A nurse in a mission hospital can spend the first part of a shift looking for a paper file, confirming a handwritten prescription, or reconstructing…
Grants & Partnerships
The first requirement for any Conrad N. Hilton Foundation health grants application is not a compelling project concept. It is understanding which…
Community Outreach
For nurses serving pastoralist communities, the question is rarely as simple as choosing between a vehicle and a building. A mobile clinic may be the…
Clinical Training & Diagnostics
Kenya’s centralized early infant diagnosis network has historically returned HIV results from dried blood spot specimens in approximately 22–60 days…
Faith-Based Healthcare
A mission dispensary can be trusted by a community for years and still fail a regulatory inspection because one document is outdated, one…
Disease Prevention & NCDs
Kenya faces a diagnostic paradox. Routine records identify roughly 800,000 adults living with diabetes, while up to 2 million Kenyans may have…