Kenya has launched its first National Cancer Control Strategy with hopes that it will reduce the incidence of cancer within the country and provide quality services and care for cancer patients and their families. This strategy could help pave the way for a much-needed national policy on palliative...
Posts Tagged “Kenya”
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The decisive steps taken by business leaders in Kenya to help those affected by famine in the country's north should provide important lessons for the country's politicians mired in corruption, patronage, and controversy.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: famine, K4K, Kenya, Kenyans for Kenya, Mugambi Kiai
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To mark World Day for International Criminal Justice, here's a quick look at the work that the Open Society Justice Initiative is doing to monitor the proceedings of the International Criminal Court and the special tribunals set up for Sierra Leone and Cambodia.
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The rise of cell phones in the developing world has led many to proclaim the digital divide a thing of the past. In reality, advances in technology are creating new kinds of inequities.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Health, Middle East
Topics: Africa, Brett Davidson, digital divide, health media, Kenya, mobile health, public health, technology
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Despite UN recognition of the importance of HIV-prevention outreach to at-risk populations, the inability to protect sex workers from HIV remains appalling.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: Argentina, Ban Ki-moon, Ghana, Heather Doyle, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV prevention, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, Macedonia, Malawi, public health, sex workers, South Africa, Uganda, UN High Level Meeting on AIDS, UNAIDS, United Nations, Zimbabwe
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The recent calls for "ethnic solidarity" in Kenya are not only a concern for international justice, but for the country's history.
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Human rights in Uganda are being eroded under the guise of preserving national security, and meanwhile, Western powers appear willing to turn a blind eye.
Posted in: Africa, Rights & Justice
Topics: Al-Amin Kimathi, Amrit Singh, Commonwealth Lawyers Association, extraordinary rendition, Kampala bombings, Kenya, Kimathi, Mbugua Mureithi, Muslim Human Rights Forum, National Security & Counterterrorism, Philippe Sands, Rapid Response Unit, torture, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
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With preliminary hearings starting at the International Criminal Court into Kenya’s 2007-08 post-election violence, it has been easy to focus on the ethnicity of those in power in The Hague rather than examine the role that ethnicity plays in Kenya.
Posted in: Africa, Rights & Justice
Topics: ethnicity, International Criminal Court, Kenya, Mugambi Kiai, Ocampo Six, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto
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Every transitional moment in Kenya, although always initially celebrated as a momentous occasion to provide for real change and transformation, has ultimately unveiled its ethnic tap root.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: ethnic conflict, Kenya, Mugambi Kiai
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When elected leaders in Kenya deliberately blur the roles of responsibility, the result is impunity.