Hepatitis scourge: Alarm as silent viral killer on the rise in Kenya
When John Ndichu noticed a persistent yellow colour in his eyes in 2016, he quickly dismissed it as the effect of intoxication. At the time, he was undergoing methadone treatment to wean him off heroin, a drug he had been using for ten years. However, the subsequent yellowing of his urine prompted him to seek […]
Kenya yet to operationalise hepatitis strategy
Hepatitis is considered a global public health threat comparable in intensity to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Yet despite the huge disease burden it causes to the population, hepatitis has largely been ignored until recently. To increase the awareness and encourage respective country’s commitments towards ending Hepatitis, World Health Organisation (WHO) developed a global health sector […]