Joyce Chimbi

Kenya’s long battle with brucellosis

The zoonotic disease is widespread across the country with significant consequences for public health, animal health, livelihoods and the economy.

6 Feb 2026

6 min read

One health

Brucellosis is a highly contagious, chronic bacterial infection caused primarily by the Brucella abortus bacterium. It is one of the most significant diseases affecting cattle. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

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Wasini Dispensary, one of two clinics in Wasini Island. The clinic helps the local community fight deadly childhood diseases such as cholera, typhoid, diarrhoea and vomiting. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

Kenya’s Wasini Island may look lost in time, but it’s keeping up on immunisation

15 Jan 2026

6 min read

Routine immunisation Malaria

Tamlega dispensary engages parents through written material and involves them in decision making to dispel myths, provide accurate information and encourage HPV vaccination. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

How a tiny dispensary in Kenya is turning the tide against cervical cancer

3 Oct 2025

6 min read

HPV

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

Mental health support for mothers improves child health in Kenya

27 Aug 2025

5 min read

Health worker heroes Maternal and child health

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

Yellow fever

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

Nutrition

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