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The entrance of Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, where Kate Nabutola died on Tuesday

The Deposit and the Donor: Kate Nabutola's Long Fight for a Liver Transplant Ends at Kenyatta National Hospital

She found a matching donor in her own sister and doctors ready to operate. The KSh 3.5 million the hospital wanted first never arrived.

about 2 months ago4 min

The landside terminal building at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, under a bright blue sky

The Gate Marked Sixteen: How an Ebola Surge Next Door Turned JKIA Into the Diaspora's Anxious Front Door

As Bundibugyo Ebola pushes past 500 deaths in Congo and slips across into Uganda, every Kenyan flying home now meets a screening line — and a diaspora watches from afar.

about 2 months ago6 min

A scientist in a laboratory examines a sample under a microscope during medical research work

The Flight Path Flown in Reverse: How Marianne Mureithi Became UoN's First Female Professor of Medical Microbiology

about 2 months ago5 min

A stained blood smear showing the elongated, sickle-shaped red blood cells that define sickle cell anaemia.

The Journey Continues, Fam: Joe Mudukiza's Long Fight With Sickle Cell, and the Belgian Door He Chose Not to Walk Through

about 2 months ago5 min

A scientist in a laboratory using a pipette to transfer samples into test tubes for genomic analysis

The Sewers That See Sickness Coming: A Nairobi Lab's $1.45 Million Bet on Predicting Africa's Next Outbreak

about 2 months ago5 min

US Navy crewmembers walk across a ship's flight deck at sunset over the Arabian Sea

The Uniform He Lost, the Life He Found: A Kenyan Sailor's Road Through Addiction, Deportation and Recovery

about 2 months ago5 min

Travellers move through an airport terminal as health screening tightens across East Africa amid a regional Ebola emergency.

The Door at the End of the Jet Bridge: How Congo's Ebola Surge Is Testing Kenya's Borders and the Diaspora's Way Home

about 2 months ago5 min

A nurse in full personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment unit, illustrating frontline outbreak response work.

The Doctor Who Carried It Across Borders: How Congo's Ebola Outbreak Reached Kinshasa, Uganda, and a Watching Diaspora

about 2 months ago5 min

A nurse in full personal protective equipment during an Ebola outbreak response, gloved and gowned in an isolation setting

The $800 Million Contradiction: Washington Funds an Ebola Centre Kenya's Own Courts Have Halted

about 2 months ago5 min

A nurse's gloved hands gently cradle a newborn baby's tiny foot in a hospital room

The First Drops: Why a Newborn's Heel-Prick Test Means One Thing in Nairobi and Another in London

about 2 months ago5 min

Healthcare workers in full personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment site during a West Africa outbreak response

The Virus the Vaccines Can't Touch: Why Kenya Is Fighting an Incurable Ebola Strain With Thermometers and Trust

about 2 months ago6 min

A view of downtown Mombasa, the Kenyan coastal city at the centre of the new national drug-use survey

The Wastewater Doesn't Lie: How Kenya's 4.7 Million Drug Survey Reaches the Families Who Send Money Home

about 2 months ago5 min

A dentist's hands holding a mirror and probe during a dental examination

The Country That Cannot Find a Dentist: How a Kenyan-Born Surgeon Fits Into Britain's Care Gap

about 2 months ago4 min

A healthcare worker in blue scrubs walks down a hospital corridor past a neonatal incubator

The Letters Waiting at Afya House: How 6,360 New Kenyan Health Workers Enter a World That Wants Them Abroad

about 2 months ago5 min

A health worker in a white coat seated in a clinical research laboratory setting

The Fifty Beds at Nanyuki: How a US Ebola Quarantine Plan Collided With Kenya's Sense of Sovereignty

about 2 months ago5 min

Dental students treat children at a free community clinic, illustrating widening gaps in access to routine dental care.

The Mouth That Britain Forgot: How a Kenyan-Born Surgeon Became a Lifeline in the NHS Dental Crisis

about 2 months ago5 min

Health workers in protective gear screen arriving passengers' temperatures at an international airport during a disease outbreak

The Form Before the Flight Home: How an Ebola Outbreak in Central Africa Reached the Diaspora's Doorstep

about 2 months ago5 min

A health officer screens an arriving international air passenger for Ebola symptoms at an airport checkpoint.

The Form Before the Flight: How Congo's Worst Ebola Surge in Years Reached Kenya's Borders

about 2 months ago5 min

Health officials screen arriving air passengers for fever using thermal cameras at an international airport terminal.

The Form Before the Jet Bridge: How Kenya's Ebola Screening Is Reshaping the Diaspora's Summer Trip Home

2 months ago4 min

Travellers and aircraft at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya's main international gateway.

The Form Before the Flight: How a Regional Ebola Surge Redraws the Diaspora's Path Home

2 months ago4 min

A health worker draws blood from a Kenyan woman's finger for an HIV test at a community clinic.

The Gap That Became a Diagnosis: Why Kenya Keeps Cutting HIV Infections but Cannot Stop the Dying

2 months ago5 min

People shielding themselves from the sun with a parasol on a bright, sweltering city street during a summer heatwave

The Red-Alert Summer: How Europe's Deadly Heatwave Reaches the Kenyans Who Keep Its Households Running

2 months ago5 min

Rows of white canvas tents at an Ebola treatment unit being prepared for medical workers, with health staff at the site.

The Tents at Laikipia: Why a US-Backed Ebola Camp on Kenyan Soil Has the Diaspora Watching Home With Unease

2 months ago5 min

A community handwashing station with water containers and soap, a frontline measure for preventing Ebola transmission.

A Thousand Cases at the Border: What East Africa's Worsening Ebola Outbreak Means for Kenyans at Home and Abroad

2 months ago6 min

Shelves of boxed medicines and pharmaceutical packaging inside a pharmacy

The Chemist on the Corner: What Nairobi's Pharmacy Crackdown Means for the Money the Diaspora Sends Home for Medicine

2 months ago5 min

Two nurses in scrubs review patient notes in a hospital corridor, illustrating healthcare staffing.

The Crème de la Crème Departure: How Kenya Trains the World's Nurses and Empties Its Own Wards

2 months ago5 min

A vial of influenza vaccine with a syringe on a clinical surface, illustrating pandemic vaccine preparedness

The Shot Before the Storm: How a British Bird-Flu Vaccine Trial Reaches Kenya's Nurses Abroad

2 months ago5 min

An ambulance ready for emergency response in Kenya, parked and equipped for dispatch

Treat First, Pay Later: How Kenya's New Free Ambulance Plan Could Ease the Diaspora's Dreaded 3 a.m. Call

2 months ago5 min