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  • Home
  • About Wanja’s Health Diary
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    • Maternal & Child Health
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    • Communicable Diseases
  • Published Stories
    • Daily Nation
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November 9, 20200

How a text message is fighting counterfeit medicines in Kenya

 Alberta returned home from a successful business trip a week ago. She dismissed the daily headaches four days later and muscle pains as f

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October 8, 20200

Bringing hope in sight amid Covid-19

Our eyes are an ocean in which our dreams are reflected. Nine moons ago, the world experienced the beginning of one of the most virulent viruses sa

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July 7, 20200

Finding the balance; protecting lives and livelihoods , securing liberties in the face of Covid-19

Communities are at the heart of the Covid-19 response. This is the key message shared daily by public health experts as we navigate the murky water

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May 19, 20200

Focused. Resilient. Confident. Lakita still standing strong

This week, 10 years back  I interviewed fellow journalist Eliud Abong’o who was battling an aggressive form of colon cancer. “I am down but no

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April 29, 20200

My date with the surgeon’s scalpel, moulding a better heart

On this morning of the surgery, the medical team is awake bright and early for yet another round of riveting heart surgeries. The doctors from

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March 16, 20200

An earnest chat on cancers in women

In June last year, Wanja’s Health Diary witnessed a surgery at Kenyatta National hospital to remove the uterus of a  70 year old patient with cer

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March 13, 20200

Keeping an eye on ovarian cancer, the silent disease

Claire wasn’t sure whether it was the food from the new cafeteria at work that had given her persistent tummy pain in the last fortnight or the

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February 15, 20200

The pap smear test: screening for cervical cancer

Last month, I  took a Pap Smear test. I had been due for it anyway but kept postponing. There was always an urgent errand to run that kept me awa

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January 15, 20200

My sweaty story: how much perspiration is too much?

Sweating. It is a biological process. This is your body’s way of cooling itself. The nervous system triggers the sweat glands when your bo

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December 9, 20190

New tools, old rules; Limiting screen time and managing speech disorders

A child who spends more time on the phone and television may delay in developing speech. Whereas this statement seems harmless, the real impact

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Wanja’s Health Diary is the digital home of important health stories narrated in a personal manner with journalistic flair and laced with expert insight. The goal is to make health journalism interesting and accessible.

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