school participation in Nairobislums.pdf Click here to read

Winners of APHRC Sexuality Award announced.pdf Click here to read

Peace in Slum Communities Honoring the Unsung Heroes.pdf Click here to read

 Infant and child malnutrition remains a major public health concern in developing countries, where it represents both a cause and consequence of poverty at individual, familial and national levels. The Kenya Service Provision Assessment of 2004 estimates that malnutrition, which is a lack of essential food nutrients in the body, is an underlying factor in about 70 percent of the illne Click here to read

 Over four years ago, APHRC initiated a research program on sexuality in Africa with funding from the Ford Foundation. The motivation behind this work was the fact that despite the connection between sexuality and poor health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, the field of sexuality is largely underdeveloped in the region, and few scholars demonstrate interest in the area. In addition, th Click here to read

Previously considered as lifestyle diseases that only affect the well-to-do, chronic diseases such as those that affect the heart and the blood circulation system, also known as Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs), are increasingly becoming a common phenomenon among the poor.An ongoing study being conducted by APHRC on the risk factors and risk perception among adults in Nairobi Kenya slums shows that Click here to read

APHRC is leading a study investigating the relationship between length of birth intervals and child survival. Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data indicates that longer birth intervals are associated with significant reductions in infant mortality. However, there is scepticism among demographers as retrospective DHS data may have systematic biases which exaggerate this relationship. Health Click here to read

The African Population & Health Research Center (APHRC) hosted the third review meeting of the INDEPTH Fertility Monograph on April 6-10, 2009. Previous meetings took place at Africa Centre and Johannesburg (South Africa) on May 21-23 and July 7-9, 2008. The editors of the Monograph are: Jean Christophe Fotso (Lead Editor); William Muhwava (Africa Centre for Health and Pop Click here to read

Global Theme for 2009: Saving Lives in Emergencies: Making Hospitals SaferAPHRC News Conference, Sunday April 5, 2009 at The Stanley Hotel, NairobiDr. Alex Ezeh, Executive Director, APHRCGood morning and welcome to this first press conference in 2009 that the African Population and Health R Click here to read

There are some basic things many people take for granted. One of these is the assurance that you will have a place to relieve yourself when the call of nature comes. Do you know that in some habitations, such an assurance is untenable? One such community in which the 30,000 residents have to plan, and perhaps budget, when a call of nature comes, is Viw Click here to read

By Amos Marube Residents of Jamaica village in Viwandani informal settlement officially handed over a site for a proposed toilet project to the contractor BAM Developers. The eventful morning was facilitated by African Population and Research Center’s staff headed by the Community Relations officer, Mr Kennedy Otsola. The project contractor will Click here to read

APHRC is working with other health sector stakeholders to establish a network to sensitize policy makers and other interest groups on health equity issues in Kenya. This group first converged on 16 October 2008 at a meeting initiated through dialogue between APHRC, EQUINET and the University of Nairobi’s Psychiatry Department. This meeting cataly Click here to read

The African Population & Health Research Center (APHRC) recently led health sector stakeholders in a consultative planning initiative for a healthy Nairobi. Under the auspices of the proposed “Partnership for Healthy Nairobi” (PHN), APHRC is collaborating with leading population and health non-profit organizations such as the Population Click here to read

New evidence from recently published APHRC research reveals the main conditions that account f or most illnesses and deaths among people living in urban inf ormal settlements in Kenya. Among children below five years old, the main causes of death are pneumonia, diarrhea, and stillbirths. All these account f or 60% of all deaths in this age-group. F or people aged five yea Click here to read

Osnat Keidar, a visiting scholar at APHRC, is leading the Health-Promoting Schools project in 22 primary schools in Viwandani and Korogocho slum settlements in Nairobi. The health-promoting schools concept is an initiative of the World Health Organization to work through the schools to improve the health of students, school personnel, families and other members of the communit Click here to read

Young people in urban slums face unique challenges as they grow from childhood through adolescence to young adulthood in a challenging environment characterized by high levels of unemployment, crime, substance abuse, poor schooling facilities, and a lack of recreational facilities. APHRC’s Transitions to Adulthood research project focuses on the Click here to read

APHRC has initiated a process to enhance training in sexuality at the University level in sub-Saharan Africa, with the aim of developing an interdisciplinary, cross-continental, doct oral program in sexuality. “There is a severe lack of research capacity around sexuality in the region,” says Dr. Chi-Chi Undie, who w orks on the sexuality pr Click here to read

Access to quality health services is still a major challenge to most people residing in the informal settlements in Nairobi who continue to bear the burden of health conditions that can easily be treated or prevented. They have fewer options than their affluent counterparts and so most health conditions are either ignored or “bravely borne”. For such, the socio-eco Click here to read

APHRC has urged Kenyan parliamentarians to give priority to reproductive health issues, in their role of overseeing both national government and constituency level development initiatives. In particular, they are urged to focus their attention on reproductive health among poor urban communities .This was the main message from a Click here to read

This was the message of this year’s World Population Day, celebrated world-wide on 11th July.   Leading up to, and following the World Population Day, APHRC has be Click here to read