Listen Provision of UHC is part of the country’s efforts to attain the highest standard of the desired status of health. It aims at ensuring all Kenyans quality, promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services without suffering financial hardship. Some of the benefits of UHC are: it lowers the healthcare cost in the economy; forces […]
Listen Elimination of user fees in primary healthcare facilities is one of the key policy considerations to address the critical issue of equity access to healthcare by the poor and vulnerable groups. According to Maina and Kirigia (2015), user fees introduced in many LMICs, Kenya included, in the 1980s have failed to achieve the objective […]
Listen Policy, legal and strategic grounding Through the Kenya Health Policy 2014-2030, Kenya Health Sector Strategic Investment Plan 2013-2017, and Kenya National eHealth Policy 2016-2030, the Government is committed to putting in place strategic interventions aimed at accelerating, achieving and maintaining UHC through increased and diversified financing options. It is also worth noting that UHC […]
Listen Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has gained traction globally, regionally and nationally in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) number 3, which aims to ensure ‘everyone has health coverage and access to safe and effective medicines and vaccines’ by 2030 (UNDP, 2015). The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines UHC as a health system […]
Listen A year after the launch of the UHC programme in Kenya, then Cabinet Secretary for Health Sicily Kariuki said that 3.2 million people had registered. Speaking at the 6th Diaspora Homecoming Convention 2019, themed Diaspora and the Big Four Agenda in December, Ms Kariuki said that they had learned key lessons from the pilot […]
Listen As then Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki noted at the 6th Diaspora Homecoming Convention, 2019, one of the lessons the ministry has learned from the UHC pilot programme is that to succeed, there must be adoption of technology, specifically mobile technology. But the technology or innovation does not have to be grand. Here is […]
Listen Kenyans are becoming increasingly conscious of their health. Not long ago, gyms seemed to be a preserve of the privileged, who after bingeing on unhealthy food or junk, as it is commonly known, would be urged by their doctors to lose weight. Then, gyms were mostly available in towns and cities, where people would […]
Listen Traditionally thought and seen as a lifestyle disease for the well-to-do and the aged, the increasing cases of children with cancer today baffles many people. At the Kenyatta National Hospital Children Oncology Ward, you will find angelic, innocent, and beautiful children battling cancer. Some of them have been in the ward for months. Others […]
Listen The year 2013 offered what can only be described as a new dispensation in Kenya. For the first time since independence, the country got semi-autonomous governments, 47 in all, known as counties, and run by elected governors. Health was devolved and transferred to the counties from the National Government. By 2014, it seemed like […]
Listen The Health Informatics Governance and Data Analytics (HIGDA) is a five-year project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and mandated to support the Kenyan Government’s health sector, as well as strengthen national and county organisational and management capacity in governance, health informatics, data analytics, monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability. Through […]