Health and Wellness

Follow up care Adult with congenital heart disease are at risk of developing complications, even if surgery was done to repair the defect during childhood. Lifelong follow-up care is important.…

Prevention Prevention of CHDs may be hard because most of their causes as earlier mentioned are unknown. Some steps one can take, however, to reduce the risk are the parent…

The Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) 2022 states that physical violence will occur if acurrent or former intimate partner or spouse did the following: pushes you, shakes you, orthrows something…

According to the Children’s Act 2022, section 30, states, the duties and responsibilities of a childas per the law are to (a) work for the cohesion of the family; (b)…

Ten thousand girls drop from school every year in Kenya because of pregnancy. Factorscontributing to this are parents don’t talk about sex, children and teens lack information abouttheir changing bodies…

Exercise is an important part of keeping teens healthy. Encouraging healthy lifestyles in childrenand teens is important for when they grow older. Lifestyles that are learned in childhood aremore likely…

There is no cure for AIDS, but there are ways to treat the symptoms. Health is not merely the absence of disease, but a sense of total well-being. Wellbeing is…

VOLUNTARY COUSELLING AND TESTING (VCT) HIV testing is accompanied by counselling, where a trained person helps an individual cope with their HIV status through in-depth discussions. The test is reliable,…

What is Stigma? People who are HIV-positive may be discriminated against or shunned in their communities because of misunderstandings or misconceptions about HIV and AIDS in the community. Adolescents may…

What Does HIV-Positive Mean? When the body’s defence system (immune system) comes into contact with a disease, it produces germ fighters, called antibodies, which fight off and destroy various viruses…