Focuses on the business, policy, and innovation within Kenya’s healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. Reports on hospital management, health tech, and medical investments.
Swedfund, Swedens development finance institution has committed $600,000 (approximately KSh 77 million) to Jacaranda Maternity, a Nairobi-based healthcare provider focused on delivering affordable maternity services to low- and middle-income communities.
By integrating AI into community health systems, the Ministry aims to improve service delivery, enable faster identification of health trends, and ensure resources are directed where they are needed most. The technology is expected to help community health promoters prioritize visits, identify at-risk patients, and track disease patterns in real time.
Lenacapavir, known as LEN, is administered subcutaneously every six months after initiation.
Seventeen African countries have signed bilateral health agreements with the United States under President Donald Trump's "America First" global health strategy, securing billions in funding but triggering a continent-wide backlash over demands for sensitive health data, mining access, and what critics describe as "lopsided" terms that undermine sovereignty.
The United States has begun winding down health assistance to Zimbabwe after negotiations over a $367 million bilateral funding agreement collapsed, with Harare rejecting what it described as "lopsided" conditions requiring access to sensitive health data without guarantees of reciprocal benefits.
U.S. funding cuts have left Kenya’s health system struggling, putting essential services and vulnerable populations at risk.
Reports of favoritism and bribery involving the procurement of health equipment to devolved units in an initiative involving the Ministry of Health (MoH), Council of Governors (CoG) and African Medical
The High Court has stopped Nairobi Hospital’s AGM after a petition by Senator Okiya Omtatah raised concerns over governance disputes and alleged financial mismanagement at the facility.
Kenya is expanding specialised healthcare through global partnerships, establishing AI-driven centres of excellence and advanced medical services.
The landscape of hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) underwent a notable decline in 2025, primarily driven by policy uncertainties and mounting financial challenges facing health care systems. Despite an optimistic
