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Kenya Senate: Amend And Pass The Reproductive Health Care Bill Now!
Jul 11, 2015By Robert Aseda We have had the statistics over and over again. The Kenya Demographic Health Surveys, the Multiple Cluster Indicator Surveys, the Kenya AIDS Indicator Surveys, the Google Zeitgeist results, the census reports all... -
Why Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights are Human Rights
Jun 30, 2015The Supreme Court in the United States last week declared that same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marry. This ruling that came during June Pride celebrations for the Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Intersex and Queer has... -
Gender Based Violence? Not A Laughing Matter
Jun 26, 2015Have we stopped laughing yet? Great. Now let’s have a sober conversation about gender based violence in Kenya that has metastasized so much that it no longer shocks us, it provides a basket of laughter. Last... -
Lessons from the 48th session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD48)
May 5, 2015So a fortnight agoo nations of the world trooped to the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the forty eight session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. Since the landmark 1994 International... -
Why Young People Need Access To Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Apr 10, 2015Young people have continued to bear the brunt of challenges facing the globe today. Be it unemployment, poverty, insecurity, lifestyle diseases among others. But none has been more pronounced like the reproductive health challenges. That the... -
Kenya: ‘Half’ society or No society?
Mar 18, 2015If there’s any debate that is not ending anytime soon, it is the plan to provide condoms to school going children. The debate that was thought to have died a natural death after the forced exit... -
Kenya: Cancer Has Stolen Too Much To Be Ignored
Feb 6, 2015It creeps stealthily and menacingly; it devours and ravages and then without any shred of tenderness, boldly announces itself to the patient, most of the times a little too late. In the hullabaloo about terror, HIV/AIDS,... -
Kenya: Increase Domestic Health Financing For a Healthy and Sustainable Healthcare System
Jan 28, 2015In 2001 African countries met in Abuja and solemnly vowed to increase budgetary allocation to health to at least 15% of their total budgetary allocation. This was in response to the serious health threats that had... -
Kenya: Tackle Teenage Pregnancies To Spur Development
Dec 17, 2014Teenage pregnancy is not just a story. It is real, severe and has far reaching implications not just to the pregnant girl but also to the family, society and country. Available statistics paint a gloomy picture... -
Let’s Look At Gender Based Violence Holistically
Dec 4, 2014The world on Tuesday November 25, 2014 launched sixteen days of activism leading up to 10th December- the day set aside globally as the international human rights day. The focus, rightly on many local and international...
