Screening of travellers has started at Busia and Malaba border points, a day after the Government issued an alert over the deadly viral Marburg disease.

Health statistics released on Tuesday by Cabinet minister Charity Ngilu were disturbing. The minister says the majority of Kenyans do not seek medical care simply because they cannot afford the cost. This means that many people die of diseases that

A rise in the cost of antiretroviral drugs in the country has prompted the Health Ministry to seek the intervention of the UN Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, to avert a looming crisis.

A group fighting HIV/Aids among Naivasha's flower farm workers has dispelled the myth about the disease in an aggressive campaign in the last three years.

HIV/Aids programmes and policies like those emphasising abstinence until marriage, ignore the brutal realities many women and girls face.

Recently, it was reported that according to the new Kenya National Strategic Plan 2005/06-2009/10, the HIV/Aids epidemic has entered into the "death phase", in which more people are dying of the disease than are becoming newly infected.

Students yesterday criticised the Government for failing to implement the scheme guaranteeing Kenyans free medical care.

Three people were yesterday arrested and two clinics closed in Kiambu town in the medical regulatory body's crackdown on illegal health centres.