Women’s’ specific rights and needs such as;
Women’s’ specific rights and needs such as;
You all know that my five-year-old son, Israel (or Issa as we fondly call him), has autism spectrum disorder (ASD). I have told you how — before and even after his diagnosis — I wrestled with accepting that my baby was autistic.
In the 80s to mid-90s, before the advent of drugs to prolong lives of HIV-positive people, many families worried about their plight when the man, who was in most cases the sole breadwinner, died of HIV-related complications.
EVERY WOMAN has an “on-it” tray, in which she has pressing personal, psychological and professional issues she is dealing with. Sometimes she is, ahem, on-it on a l-o-o-ng-term basis. At other times it is an on-and-off fling.
EVERY YEAR, when children write the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams, our organisation crunches numbers. We try and calculate the cost of sending “our children” to secondary school.
When I say, “our children”, I mean the orphans and vulnerable children that KENWA, in partnership with other organisations and individuals, educate up to university, some in technical institutions.
I am the HIV activist who keeps preaching that, with the great medical strides we have made, no person should die of HIV-related complications. That is why I am walking the talk. And it will be a 50-year-long walk. I have set my sights on the year 2065. That is when, God willing and meds working well, I will hit a century.
It was a Saturday afternoon in 2006, and Florence and two girlfriends were planning to go to Kenyatta National Hospital to get their HIV results. The previous day, one of the girlfriends had called Florence in distress; she had found her boyfriend cheating with a girl who was rumoured to have been around the block quite a few times, and now she was worried that she had contracted HIV from him.
Our Goal is: enabling the counties team to respond, selectively and flexibly,
The World Health Organization estimates that about 800,000 people die by suicide each year.
Our main Goal is to accelerate reduction of TB, Leprosy and Lung disease burden through