Source: African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
Date: 06 Jun 2008
Responding to crisis: Lessons from Kenya’s silent emergency
AMREF’s Deputy-Director General, Dr Florence Muli-Musiime has warned that emergency institutions, both local and international, risk misdirecting their humanitarian crisis response if they are not sensitive to community dynamics that are not always visible in times of upheaval. In [...]
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: 19 May 2008
Kenya: Surgeons dissect lessons from post-election violence
Following Kenya’s December 2007 general elections, hospital staff had to face a massive, and unexpected, influx of victims of violence. Now, during a series of ICRC-organized workshops geared at peace-time emergencies, they are discussing the lessons learned. The ICRC’s [...]
Date: 29 Apr 2008
Clean camps improve health in Kenya
CRS continues to respond to the post-election crisis in Kenya. Recently, staff from CRS and the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret trained 18 volunteers to serve as hygiene promoters in camps in the Eldoret area of western Kenya. One volunteer, Milka Nyambura Kariuki, lives with 2,000 other displaced [...]
Source: Kenya Red Cross Society
Date: 29 Apr 2008
Cholera in Nyanza: Kenya Red Cross intervenes
Nairobi, 29th April 2008 - Nyanza region has had cholera outbreaks since last year where the first case was confirmed in Suba on 2nd December 2007. The outbreaks have been reported in 10 districts. The affected districts are Nyando, Homabay, Suba, Migori, [...]
KENYA: Camp conditions harsh for HIV-positive displaced people
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
IDPs have insufficient food, soap and warm clothing in the camps
NAKURU, 29 April 2008 (PlusNews) - Harsh living conditions and the onset of the cold rainy season in Kenya are making it increasingly difficult for HIV-positive people displaced in the recent post-election violence [...]
KENYA: ARV programmes slowly recovering from post-election crisis
Photo: Manoocher DEGHATI/IRIN
AMPATH has opened a satellite centre in the Nakuru Showground IDP camp where patients can receive ARVs
ELDORET, 28 April 2008 (PlusNews) - Thousands of Kenyans who dropped out of HIV treatment programmes in January as a result of the country’s post-election violence are [...]
Date: 23 Apr 2008
Kenya: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #12 (FY 200
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Note: The last fact sheet was dated April 9, 2008.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
- The April 13 announcement of the formation of a coalition cabinet has led to a reduction in tensions in [...]
Health Action in Crises - Highlights No. 203 – 07 to 13 Apr 2008
Date: 13 Apr 2008
KENYA
Assessments and Events
- On 8 April, the key political parties announced a suspension in their dialogue. The UN fears that this could slow or halt progress made in returning thousands of IDPs to their homes.
- Social networks are disrupted [...]
Date: 10 Apr 2008
Kenya issues alert after cholera kills 60
NAIROBI, April 10, 2008 (AFP) - Kenya on Thursday issued a cholera outbreak alert after the disease killed 60 people in recent weeks, compounding a health nightmare in the country reeling from months of political violence.
Kenya’s Director of Medical Services James Nyikal said the outbreak had [...]
KENYA: Sexual violence continues in IDP camps
NAKURU, 4 March 2008 (PlusNews) - Residents in a camp for displaced persons in Nakuru, in Rift Valley Province, western Kenya, were deeply shocked when a gang of men attacked and sexually assaulted five boys, but the health officials dealing with sexual violence during the recent political upheaval [...]
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