Purity Kyalo’s first pregnancy did not go well. She went to her first antenatal clinic at five months. The urban health facility in Nairobi, Kenya, had long queues and few health workers. Purity showed up three days in a row before the doctor could check her and her baby. “When it was my turn to
Hours before going into surgery in Kisumu County Referral Hospital in February 2022, Evaline Akoth spent time with her husband, 16-year-old son, and two young daughters. These nearly became her last memories: Evaline experienced complications after surgery and suffered a cardiac arrest. “I woke up three days later in a different room from the one
To prepare for and help prevent the next pandemic, global health leaders assert that countries need well-equipped laboratories and experts who are capable of detecting dangerous pathogens and new variants in time to respond. These labs need to be capable of genome sequencing—a technology that determines the DNA or RNA sequence of an organism, enabling
