Bank on Me: Breast Milk Donations to Help Vulnerable Kids

The importance of breast milk to infant nutrition is second to none. In fact, WHO in acknowledging the same has encouraged exclusive breastfeeding and skin-to-skin practice to reduce infant mortality rates and donated breast milk as the first alternative for premature babies and low birth weight babies. A move that has since seen over 600 milk banks open up in more than 60 countries globally. Kenya is among those countries having opened the first milk bank within the Eastern Africa region in 2019 at the Pumwani Maternity Hospital.

health, LifestyleTAP TeamAugust 9, 2021kenya, healthComment

Love Letter to the culture

Love letter to the culture. Tonight I can’t sleep. I’m in my feelings. Yesterday was a good day, but I can’t get this off my mind. Forget all this tossing and turning; let’s rewind it a couple of months.

Columns, healthIlex RibeiroJuly 7, 2020opinionComment

Are you living a healthy sexual life?

Are you living a healthy sexual life? Sexuality is a central part of who we are as human beings. Our abilities and choices around reproduction, intimacy, and sexual expression are very crucial. The study of human sexuality as a science from the early 19th century has advanced our knowledge in understanding sexuality issues that have over many years been sidelined and still are to date.

health, LifestyleadminApril 21, 2017health, Lifestyle, African youthComment

Obesity Among Kenyan and Canadian Children-By Dr Stella Muthuri

Dr. Stella Muthuri research aimed at investigating the prevalence of, and factors associated with physical activity and overweight/obesity among school aged children in Kenya and Canada. This research involved examining the influence of social determinants of health such as school environments, neighborhoods, and home environments, and their effects on youth in relation to physical activity and overweight/obesity.

health, Interview, Lifestyle, EducationMoses MutabarukaNovember 23, 2015health, Lifestyle, African youth, DiasporaComment

Sickle Strong Initiative - Dr. Marie Ojiambo

health, LifestyleMoses MutabarukaNovember 19, 2015Comment

Is a Fruitarian diet for you?

health, LifestyleOlivier MasabarakizaOctober 13, 2015FatOlivier, healthComment

Why Aren’t You A Vegan?

healthIlex RibeiroJune 13, 2015Comment

The Crazy Project: Talking About Mental Health

The mental health commission of Canada reports that one in five Canadians experiences a mental health problem or illness, with a cost to the countries economy of well in excess of $50 billion. That only "one in three people who experience a mental health problem or illness -- and as few as one in four children or youth -- report that they have sought and received services and treatment."

healthMoses MutabarukaOctober 13, 2014Lifestyle, mental health, moses mutabaruka, healthComment

#KWIBUKA20: Let's Talk Mental Health

Our community was greatly affected by the genocide and exposure to so many traumatic events that left so many children, women and men having to live with haunting memories and who have to find ways to cope with life and post genocide scars.

healthMoses MutabarukaJune 13, 2014Rwanda, moses mutabaruka, mental healthComment

Kwibuka20; Twenty Years In The Mind Of A WarChild

20 years ago this week, Rwandans who had long believed that God walked the world during the day and slept in Rwanda were left to deal with the worst possible evil when God presumably forgot about the tiny African country!! As we commemorate 20 years since the genocide I've found courage to share a little part of my journey during those days in 1994

healthMoses MutabarukaApril 4, 2014moses mutabaruka, Rwanda, mental health Comments

Wars Against Women Female Genital Mutilation

The estimate worldwide is that more than 130 million girls and women have undergone the procedure of FGM. The origins of female circumcision or FGM have been lost in antiquity, but the practice remains prevalent in East and West Africa, parts of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as among first-generation immigrants from these regions to Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United States.

healthadminJune 13, 2013Lifestyle, magazines, health, African youthComment

Top 4 Hunger Stats

healthadminJune 13, 2012Comment