Most maternity medical centres in Nairobi are no more than death traps, lacking in facilities, medicines and human skills. A study carried out by the Nairobi-based African Population and Health Research Centre, the World Bank and two UK universities — Southampton and Liverpool John Moores — found high maternal deaths related to poor medical services.
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Poverty and lack of education have been identified as the key challenges impeding access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services among the urban poor in Kenya’s slums. Participants in two community consultations organized by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) respectively held in Korogocho and Viwandani slums of Nairobi in late July also complained of inadequate healthcare facilities in the slums. “Some of us want to use family planning services but we don’t know how. There are no hospitals here to give us proper information and services. That is why some women go for cheaply available options whose dangers and efficacy are unknown. The government should help us by providing information and services free of charge or at a rate affordable to us,” said a participant. The community consultations, which brought together men and women participants from these informal settlements, provided an opportunity for the residents to openly discuss their SRH concerns with government officials and the media.
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On 7th and 9th July the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) Program made donations worth $ 6,000 to 10 control primary schools in Korogocho and Viwandani informal settlements. The HPS project was initiated in 2008 by Ms Osnat Keidar, a visiting researcher from Israel. The health promotion program targeted both informal settlements where Korogocho was the intervention site and Viwandani was used as the control site after initial findings of the research study revealed that most children living in these informal settlements experience high rates of infant mortality and morbidity as a result of the poor water and sanitation facilities in their environment. This intervention seeks to build the capacity of the primary schools and the community infrastructure in Korogocho to promote health using personal hygiene- particularly hand washing as an entry point. The program also promotes healthy behaviors in the schools by integrating health in the curriculum, training teachers, parents board members on health promotion, supporting health clubs, airing health messages through drama, media and community barazas and providing soap, water points and toilet facilities.
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Human rights and reproductive health organisations are urging Parliament to create a law to criminalise forced sex in marriages. They further want MPs to sensitise their constituents on the need to engage in consensual sex. In Marital Rape and Its Impact: A Policy Brief for the Kenyan Members of Parliament, 2010, the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) says forced sex within marriage is rape, a criminal offence which must be punished.
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APHRC held a two day workshop on March 11-12 2010 to train 24 health planners from Nairobi district in Kenya on data collection and Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) which are crucial for planning and allocation of resources in the health sector.
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APHRC has been selected to be part of an international consortium formed to improve the quality of health services in the developing world by strengthening the health care workforce. Through a project dubbed the CapacityPLUS project, a total of eight organizations and development partners will be working together to provide technical assistance in training health care workers at the community level. Based on the key competencies and strengths of APHRC, the Center is tasked with
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The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) marked this year’s World Health Day with a forum on Urban Health Challenges held on April 6. This was in line with this year's World Health Day theme of Urbanization and Health. The forum brought together Government officials from Kenya's two health ministries, parliament, and public health media practitioners from the mainstream and alternative press. The keynote address was delivered by the WHO Country Director Dr David Okello, who noted that African governments must address urban growth and associated problems if the UN MDGs are to be fulfilled. The National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (NCAPD) and the US-based Population Reference Bureau (PRB) were partners in organizing the forum. In attendance were also representations from international organizations such as the BBC World Service Trust, journalism training institutes such as the University of Nairobi's School of Journalism, and APHRC researchers, who made presentations and led discussions on research-based policies in Kenya.
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The Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) covers a Demographic Surveillance Area (DSA) that straddles the two slums of Korogocho and Viwandani in Nairobi City, Kenya. The DSA covers a land area of about 1 square kilometer, with the two informal settlements being located about 3 kilometers from each other. Overall, the two slums exhibit some notable differences with
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Members of Parliament (MPs) from East and Southern Africa met in Uganda again on September 21, 2009 to follow up on the meeting they held last year to deliberate on health equity challenges in the sub-region. This meeting was organized by the Southern and East African Parliamentary Alliance of Committees on Health (SEAPACoH) in partnership with African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Partners in Population and Development-Africa Regional Office (PPD-ARO), and EQUINET.
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The Population Dynamics and Reproductive Health (PDRH) theme’s overriding goal is provide scientific evidence and articulate policy and program priorities for sustainable population growth and improved reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa.
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A critical threat to health and development in sub-Saharan Africa is HIV/AIDS, which claims some 2.4 million lives in the region each year. At the same time, non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer are growing problems in Africa as a result of aging populations and changing lifestyles. In Kenya, for instance, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now a leading cause of death among adults aged 30 and over, in part because of the increasing prevalence of obesity.
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By 2020, the majority of sub-Saharan Africans will live in cities. Rapid urbanization in the region amid declining or stagnant economies coupled with poor governance has forced many poor urban residents to live in deplorable conditions
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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 the number of slum dwellers affected by CVDs is on the rise.
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