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%…
Clinical Training & Diagnostics
Rapid diagnostic test training: is it enough for rural clinics?
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…
Articles
Disease Prevention & NCDs
Faith-Based Healthcare
Digital health records in mission hospitals: the shift to data
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
Seven essential requirements for Hilton Foundation health grants
The first requirement for any Conrad N. Hilton Foundation health grants application is not a compelling project concept. It is understanding which…
Community Outreach
Mobile clinics or permanent posts for pastoralist regions
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
Point of care diagnostics: shifting lab capacity to rural clinics
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
Mission dispensary registration requirements in Kenya
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dispensary can be trusted by a community for years and still fail a regulatory inspection because one document is outdated, one…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
Diabetes screening: community outreach versus hospital testing
Kenya faces a diagnostic paradox. Routine records identify roughly 800,000 adults living with diabetes, while up to 2 million Kenyans may have…