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Image 8% of all Kenyan households experienced catastrophic health expenditures, with out-of-pocket payments pushing more than 1 million Kenyans into poverty annually. (Photo: Sarah Farhat/World Bank) In 2017, Grace, a 45-year-old single mother of five children in Kenya, discovered a painless mass in her right breast. So she trekked 80 kilometers from her home to the nearest hospital, where doctors called for surgical removal of the mass – without explaining it could be cancerous. Not realizin...

THE STANDARD In 2017, Grace, a 45-year-old mother of five, discovered a painless mass in her right breast. She trekked 80km from home to the Kakamega County Hospital where doctors called for surgical removal of the mass – without explaining it could be cancerous. Not realising the full extent of her risk and lacking accurate information, Grace declined to have the procedure.  A few months later, Grace experienced growing pain that became incapacitating. She turned to her family to cover livi...

As research into COVID-19 swells, R&D on other infectious diseases is seriously lacking, report finds.

Infectious disease research ‘alarmingly low’ Inside a pharmacy in India. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about equal access to medicines. Copyright: Trinity Care Foundation, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). This image has been cropped. Speed read Focus on COVID-19 threatens to further divert attention ‘Half of key medicines’ are missing from equitable access plans Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative ...