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Below are the current open positions. Program Coordinator Communication Officer
Role of the Agricultural sector in improving TB outcomes: A case study of Cereal board of Kenya and one Acre in Bungoma
This was the third time Joshua visited the TB clinic with TB symptoms. He had been treated the first time and the second time and by his own admission, he had not followed the Doctors instruction on treatment adherence. “I got concerned that he would develop drug resistant if he […]
Supporting TB clients from the market stalls
Elija, 48, strolls towards his market stall in Embu town where he sells peas. His day starts as early as five a.m. He supplies peas to the retail vegetable market in Embu town. He buys his stock from the whole sale market to supply to other small scale business people […]
Catastrophic bills haunt her in her grave
Twelve thousand dollars could buy a new 14-seater bus. It could construct a decent three bedrooms house in any part of rural Kenya. It could buy a plot in the outskirts of Nairobi. But to David Wachira, it’s the value of a hospital bill left by his late daughter Joyce, […]
Civil society demands zero-rating of taxes on HIV, TB drugs
In Summary •HIV funding from Pepfar has been reducing since 2018, without any notable increase from the Kenyan government. •The civil society organisations also want NHIF to put in place strategies that will ensure equitable access to healthcare Stop TB Partnership Kenya national coordinator Evelyn Kibuchi addresses the press in […]
TB GETS THE MUCH-NEEDED ATTENTION AT THE LABOR DAY EVENT
Kenya joined the rest of the world in celebrating International Labour Day on May 1st but this was not your ordinary labour day. Unlike other celebrations, matters Tuberculosis (TB) featured prominently in this year’s event marked at the historic Uhuru Park. Stop TB Partnership Kenya and other partners supported the Ministry […]
SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR TB PATIENTS
Stop TB Partnership and other partners are supporting the Ministry of Health – TB Program in developing a social protection framework for TB patients. The aim of the framework is to ensure that there are more effective and sustainable policies and programs that will cushion TB patients from the catastrophic […]
Day of the African Child, 2017
Back in 1976, close to ten thousand black students from Soweto in South Africa took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction on the quality of education they were accessing. Their demonstration was to reveal how the Black Education Act discriminated against children on the basis of race. Many children […]
TB AND THE YOUTH- The Myths
TB is not curable!” retorted the twenty-something old man. “It killed my cousin after we had invested so much seeking his treatment,” continued the somehow agitated man, seemingly still devastated by the loss. This was in response to my question on what he knew about TB. I was engaging him […]