Kenya is a country located in the eastern part of Africa bordering countries like Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda. It is considered as a developing middle income country with a population of approximately 47.6 million people as of November 2019 (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, 2019). Kenya as a country has a very diverse population […]
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On 10th October 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) marked World Mental Health Day by launching a report of a survey on the status of mental health globally. The report found out that up to 98% of the 130 countries that were surveyed had experience disruption of mental health services. This coming on the backdrop
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On 12th August every year global leaders both in the political, civil and corporate fronts come together to mark a momentous day, International Youth Day. This is a day that was set aside to be marked in efforts to ramp up commitment for youth empowerment. It’s a time that stakeholders take stock of advances made, review
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Access to essential healthcare services is a critical component of the aspirations of Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) and roadmap to its realization, Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC). This access is driven by availability of health facilities, medicines and their quality and the affordability of the services and products. Community pharmacies are the most accessible health
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Coronavirus disease commonly known as COVID-19 came unannounced and have caused havoc and distress to lives and livelihoods. Kenya being a young nation with an estimated youth population of about 50% i.e. between the age of 12-35, the impact of this pandemic was to be shouldered by this group. To add to the probable cost
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Abstract: Disease outbreaks impact human lives negatively in different facets. To curtail the extent of such devastation, it is imperative to design, implement and monitor interventions that can contain the outbreak with minimal impact. With the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan China in December 2019, the spread have been rapid with massive distress
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Abstract: Disease outbreaks have been known to cause substantial devastation in the world. The impact of such outbreaks on mental health have been documented but unfortunately these haven’t been mainstreamed into emergency response preparedness. Low-income countries (LIC) are the most disadvantaged in this front especially considering mental health care hasn’t been much developed with countries
Ryculture Health and Social Innovation hosted it’s first consultatory/public discussion at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) on 15th of February 2018. The session brought together enthusiastic university students from different faculties, worth mentioning from the college of health sciences, highest attendance being Bachelor of Pharmacy students and Bsc. Actuarial Science students. Dr.
