n 2024, Kenya signed a deal with United Nations Population Fund (@unfpa ), the UN agency that deals with reproductive and maternal health worldwide.
For every $1 the government spent on contraceptive supplies, the agency would contribute $2, but that only works if Kenya pays first.
The government still owes $618,473 for 2025 and another $2 million for 2026.
Now, the country has run out of contraceptive supplies, and women who rely on family planning are paying the price.
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Kenya has secured a seat on the board of the @Pandemic_Fund, the World Bank-hosted financing mechanism created to strengthen global pandemic preparedness. The appointment gives Kenya a vote in deciding which health security investments receive funding around the world.
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Maryanne Wambui remembers the moment her vision changed, then darkness. What she didn’t know was that her body was already experiencing the onset of preeclampsia, a complication that can be fatal.
She survived because she reached a level 4 hospital equipped to handle such emergencies. But data shows fewer women are delivering in Kenya’s higher-level hospitals, raising concerns about access to lifesaving maternal care.
Data from the Kenya Health Information System shows more than 87,000 fewer deliveries in Kenya’s Level 4 and Level 5 hospitals since 2023.
Dr Omanwa Kireki President of @TheKOGSociety warns that the cost of accessing referral hospital maternity services may be driving the decline.
In April last year, Dr Issak Bashir, Kenya's head of Family Health, received a confidential tip about a referral hospital where 18 mothers had died in three months. He visited the hospital and spent nine hours reviewing the files of the deceased women, after which he concluded: "We did not identify any financial or funding gaps that killed those mothers. It was just a mindset and negligence of those who were responsible, and there was nobody taking account — there was no accountability.”
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