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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 realizing the full extent of her risk and lacking accurate information, Grace declined to have the procedure...

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 living expenses. When she was finally diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer, the mama mboga could not af...

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 commons attribution license, but please follow some simple guidelines: You have to credit our author...