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Isoniazid Preventive Therapy for People Living with HIV
CHS has been actively working with health facilities and county health management teams in five counties of Central Kenya, to scale up the provision of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) for…
CHS Participates in the first Pan African Thoracic Society (PATS) Congress
CHS participated and partly sponsored the first biennial conference on respiratory diseases in Africa, which took place in Nairobi between April 9 – 12, 2016. The inaugural Pan African Thoracic…
CHS Joins National Efforts to MulikaTB! MalizaTB!
On March 24, 2016, CHS joined the Ministry of Health and other TB control partners in commemorating World Tuberculosis (TB) Day at a colourful and well attended Stakeholders’ breakfast in…
County World TB Day Commemoration
On March 24, 2016, the world marked the World TB Day. In Kenya, the event was marked all over the country, with counties conducting commemoration events under the slogan ‘Mulika…
Handover of HTC Rooms at Ruiru Sub-District Hospital
On March 8, 2016, CHS officially handed over two newly completed HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC) rooms at Ruiru Sub-County Hospital. Created out of necessity to provide space for HIV…
Time for a check up, Cancer may be catching up with you!
The cancer causing Human Papillomavirus (HPV) will infect almost every sexually active person at one point in his or her life, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).…
BCG Vaccine – Its Evolution and Importance
The scar on the lower half of the arm near the elbow seems like a normal occurrence to many Kenyans, but its bearers do not often think about its significance. This scar, which normally forms a few weeks after administration, is a sign of one’s reception of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which protects its bearer from the claws of the dreaded Tuberculosis (TB) disease from a young age.
MDR-TB in Mobile Populations: Omar Guleed’s Story
*Omar Guleed stepped on the brakes of his truck. He had to do it today. The cough had persisted for more than two weeks, and he felt a sharp…