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Joyce Chimbi

Mental health support for mothers improves child health in Kenya

Screening new mums for stress and depression is offering young women a lifeline - and helping to ensure more children are vaccinated.

27 Aug 2025

5 min read

Health worker heroes Maternal and child health

Community Health Promoters play a critical role in bringing health services closer to the community through the Electronic Community Health Information System or eCHIS. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

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Credit: Studio Miko/Joyce Chimbi

Kenya's protected generation: 25 years of Gavi impact

20 Jun 2025

6 min read

Routine immunisation Maternal and child health

Lwakhakha Dispensary caters to many women from Uganda who cross the border for maternity services. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

High-tech tools, old-school vigilance: how Kenya is keeping polio at bay

4 Jun 2025

11 min read

Polio Spotlight on polio

Children at Al-Khamis Islamic Day primary and nursery school queue for vaccination against yellow fever. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

Nearly 4 million vaccinated in bid to curb yellow fever risk in eastern Uganda

12 May 2025

7 min read

Camels watering in Northern Kenya. Credit: EU/ECHO/Eunice Maina

Rift Valley fever kills both livestock and people, and it's becoming more common

11 Mar 2025

6 min read

Outbreaks Rift Valley fever

During large-scale immunisation campaigns, Community Health Promoters mark the doors to show how many children were vaccinated in each house and if vaccination was declined, requiring a follow-up. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

Kenya’s internally displaced children are at risk of going unvaccinated. A new strategy is changing that

10 Feb 2025

7 min read

Routine immunisation

How Kenya is bringing primary care closer to the community

12 Dec 2024

7 min read

UHC

Child Welfare Clinics promote adherence to the immunisation schedule by keeping mother and baby in close contact with health providers. Credit: Joyce Chimbi.

For Kenya's kids, close contact with the healthcare system is key

5 Nov 2024

7 min read

Maternal and child health

The Beyond Zero Clinic in Lindi Ward, part of Nairobi’s Kibra informal settlement. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

This small Nairobi clinic learned to listen, and vaccination rates went through the roof

8 Jul 2024

6 min read

Zero-dose children

Babies are weighed at their doorstep using growth monitoring weighing scales provided to CHWs by the Ministry of Health. Credit: Joyce Chimbi.

How Kenya is boosting babies’ access to their so-called “first vaccine”

4 Jun 2024

8 min read

Auto-disable syringes as they are the gold standard for vaccination safety, designed to prevent re-use. Credit: Revital Healthcare

African-made auto-disable syringes are bolstering immunisation on the continent

27 Feb 2024

6 min read

Innovation Made in Africa

Margaret Odera. Credit: Kelly Warden/2023/Gavi

“We are the foundation”: a community health worker’s story

1 Nov 2023

11 min read

Gender equality HIV

KDHS 2022 shows that an estimated 80 percent of children aged 12 to 23 months received all basic vaccinations. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

Free maternal health care in Kenya “brought women and children back to hospitals”

12 Oct 2023

7 min read

Routine immunisation

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