Ascent Rift Valley Fund sells stake in Medpharm to Cerba Lancet Africa
Ascent Rift Valley Fund Ltd (ARVF) has announced that it has exited as a shareholder of Medpharm Holdings...
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Africa CDC calls for more investment in the continent’s health institutions
The African Union Commission and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have called for more...
Kenya’s Zuri Health & Damu Sasa among African startups to receive Ksh. 6M from i3 health startup support initiative
Investing in Innovation (i3), an African support initiative for African health supply chain startups, has announced its first...
Roche launches self sample collection solution for HPV screening for women at risk of cervical cancer
Roche has announced the launch of a human papillomavirus (HPV) self sampling solution for women at risk of...
Elekta joins IFC’s Africa Medical Equipment Facility to increase access to cancer treatment
Elekta has joined the IFC’s Africa Medical Equipment Facility (AMEF) to increase access to cancer treatment on the...
Experts have called for stronger health systems to better handle future pandemics
Experts in the health industry have called for stronger health systems and accelerated investment in the sector to...
Novartis to launch app to document & share diagnosis of sickle cell disease in Kenya
Novartis is planning to launch an app that will document and share the diagnosis of babies with sickle...
Ascent Rift Valley Fund invests in Valley Hospital in Nakuru
Ascent Rift Valley Fund II LP has acquired a significant equity stake of Valley Hospital Limited located in...
Stanbic Bank to support Rotary District 9212 97th annual conference in Diani
Stanbic Bank Kenya has partnered with the Rotary District 9212, in the 97th Annual Rotary District Conference and...
Corteva Agriscience invests in seed treatment capability for Africa & Middle East
Corteva Agriscience has opened its Centre for Seed Applied Technologies (CSAT) laboratory in South Africa, one of only...
BluePeak Private Capital invests $15m in pharmaceutical company Africure
BluePeak Private Capital has announced it has invested $15 million in Africure, a pan-African manufacturer and distributor of...
Health tech company Zuri Health launches WhatsApp Chatbot
Health tech startup Zuri Health has announced that it has launched a WhatsApp chatbot for its customers in...
COMESA issues warning against consumption of Indomie noodles after Egypt ban
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has issued a warning against the consumption of Indomie...
Kenyans to lose their NHIF cover if proposed Huduma Namba bill is enacted
Millions of Kenyans are at risk of losing their hospital insurance covers with the National Hospital Insurance Fund...
New study shows that treatment could reduce child deaths by 30%
New research has found that water treatment reduces the odds of child mortality (death before age five) by...
Smile Train & Jordan Hospital celebrate 500 cleft lip surgery milestone in Kitui
Global cleft charity Smile Train recently joined Jordan Hospital in Kitui, Kenya to celebrate the successful surgeries of...
lifeyangu.com launched to help youth access info on reproductive & sexual health
The Ministry of Health in Kenya have launched the lifeyangu.com platform to enable Kenyan youth to be able...
Gold Star Kenya & Pathologists Lancet Kenya partner to offer lab tests to hospitals in Kenya
Gold Star Kenya and Pathologists Lancet Kenya have announced a partnership to offer over 100 health facilities access...
Gertrude’s urges stakeholders to restore immunization programs for children
Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital has urged healthcare stakeholders in Kenya to step up efforts to restore immunization programs across...
Smile Train & KEMRI urges medical professionals to conduct more research on cleft in East Africa
Smile Train, and Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) have urged healthcare professionals to conduct more research on cleft...
M-PESA Foundation & Gertrude’s Hospital launch telemedicine service in Samburu County
The M-PESA Foundation and Gertrude’s Hospital Foundation have launched their telemedicine initiative, dubbed Daktari Smart, in Samburu County....
Penda Health & Phillips Foundation to offer X-Ray and ultrasound services to Kenyans
Penda Health has partnered with the Phillips Foundation in offering X-ray and ultrasound services to Penda’s over 250,000...
M-PESA Foundation partners with Gertrude’s Hospital to launch telemedicine initiative in Samburu County
M-PESA Foundation and Gertrude’s Hospital Foundation have launched their telemedicine initiative, Daktari Smart, in Samburu County. The programme...
There is a need for strengthening of supply chains according to health and tech leaders
Top health and tech stakeholders in the continent have called for the strengthening of national supply chains. This...
Smile Train partners with KEMRI to advance cleft research in the East African region
Smile Train, a global cleft organization, has partnered with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) to engage cleft...
Study shows that COVID-19 vaccines have significant improvements in mental health
The COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous strain on public health systems and healthcare workers. While the virus has...
Zipline partners with Kisumu County Government to accelerate UHC across the county
Zipline, an instant logistics company has in partnership with the Kisumu County Government executed an agreement to leverage...
M-TIBA partners with private hospitals to boost loans to healthcare providers
M-TIBA, a digital health financing platform, recently partnered with the Kenya Association of Private Hospitals (KAPH) in a...
KEMSA maintains above-average supplies rate of essential medicines to support UHC
The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) has confirmed the dispatch of assorted essential medical supplies all 47 counties...
KEMSA welcomes UHC national scale up, confirms readiness to supply medicines
The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) leadership has welcomed the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) national scale-up efforts. The...
Boehringer Ingelheim launches a virtual educational program on heart failure to empower healthcare professionals
Boehringer Ingelheim, a pharmaceutical company, has launched a virtual scientific program titled MEDEX (META Heart Failure Discussion for...
Equity Afia opens 6 additional medical centres in Nairobi, Kirinyaga & Laikipia counties
Equity Afia has opened 6 additional medical centres in Ruai, Kariobangi, Lavington, Umoja, Kerugoya and Nanyuki. This is...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partners with Wellcome to pledge Ksh. 34 Billion to CEPI in bid to accelerate epidemic preparedness
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has in partnership with Wellcome pledged a total of Ksh. 34 billion...
MPESA Foundation commits Ksh. 9.2 million to support development of Gatunguru Health Centre in Murang’a County
The MPESA Foundation has funded the completion and equipping of the Gatunguru Health Centre to the tune of...
Travel insurance is a necessity when taking a trip abroad according to AAR
Many people do not often factor in travel insurance when planning a journey, a vacation, family visit or...
USAID 4TheChild program partners with Post Bank to support HIV/AIDS affected families in western Kenya
USAID 4TheChild, a USAID-funded program in western Kenya, has signed a five year partnership with the Kenya Post...
Dorcas Wangira & Zainab Mohammed named as winners at the 2021 Merck Foundation Media Awards
The Merck Foundation in partnership with African First Ladies has announced the winners of the Merck Foundation Mask...
CEO Fridays: A conversation with Dr. Maria Bayerl on facial anesthetics & her plan to open a practice in Kenya
Over the recent years, reports have shown that the number of people getting cosmetic procedures has risen steadily....
Here are the hospitals offering the COVID-19 booster shots in Nairobi
The Ministry of Health in Kenya recently announced the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to people who...
Study shows that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine significantly boosted levels of antibodies against the Omicron variant
Data from a new laboratory study at the University of Oxford has revealed that AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine significantly...
Kenya announces that citizens can now get COVID-19 vaccine booster shots
The Ministry of Health has announced the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to people who have already...
US to temporary lift travel restrictions against 8 southern African countries
The U.S has announced plans to lift the temporary COVID-19-related travel restrictions imposed on eight southern African countries...