Since mid-September, MSF emergency team has been in Turkana responding to a surge in malaria cases in Turkwell, Naipa and Kotaruk areas. Many people in these communities face challenges getting medical care in time. This is why community agency through community heath promoters is critical in taking malaria treatment closer to people through the test … Read more
August 11, 2025, Mombasa– Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is supporting the Mombasa County Department of Health in thetreatment of patients of the Mpox disease at the Utange Field Hospital Isolation Centre in Mombasa. Since July 2024, Kenya has reported 336 Mpox cases in 24 counties, and Mombasa leads with 152 cases. MSF team … Read more
Kiambu ranks fifth out of the 47 counties in Kenya, with high numbers of people who use drugs (PWUD). PWUD form part of key populations, who have four times more HIV prevalence in Kenya compared to the general population. In Kenya, Hepatitis prevalence among people who use drugs is 22%. For 5 years, MSF has … Read more
Raging floods have hit Kenya, killing nearly 200 people and displacing tens of thousands in Nairobi and other parts of the country, as heavy rainfall continues to batter the country since March. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Kenya started supporting those affected by the floods. With ongoing heavy rainfall across Kenya and the region, … Read more
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, Epilepsy, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, among others, account for up to 39 in every 100 deaths in Kenya. In 2019 an internal review in the inpatient department at the Homa Bay Country Teaching and Referral Hospital, showed that 1 in every 5 deaths occurred from a chronic … Read more
Cholera outbreaks are occurring with increasing frequency, and lasting for longer, across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Tetiana Gaviuk, communications manager of the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) questions in this piece why the death toll from this preventable disease is rising. Cholera is an acute bacterial infection caused by ingesting food … Read more
When an MSF team working in the Kenyan city of Mombasa discovered that there were significant gaps in healthcare for adolescents and young people, they decided to do something about it. The assessment they conducted in May 2021 revealed that, among them, the people who found it hardest to get healthcare were often those with … Read more
Nairobi, 30 May 2023 – More funding is urgently needed to avert a looming health catastrophe in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. A cholera outbreak in the camps has affected 2,786 people so far and there is an imminent risk of outbreaks of other gastro-intestinal … Read more
Hospital admissions of children suffering from severe malnutrition have spiked in Dagahaley, one of three refugee camps in the Dadaab refugee complex, amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the overcrowded camps, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In 2022, MSF treated a record 12,007 patients – an overwhelming majority of whom are children – in its pediatric … Read more
In Northeast Kenya, an ongoing drought is raging on following three consecutive seasons of failed rains, making an already dire food insecurity situation worse. Marsabit County is now reporting high or above-usual rates of acute malnutrition. If medical and humanitarian assistance provided by the national and county governments does not improve, the crisis may continue to September … Read more