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Data Dredger is a Kenyan site on data journalism practice. It is a space built to exhibit the best data journalism practices as well as provide content, which journalists and newsrooms can use to build and enhance data storytelling.
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30 Years of HIV is an interactive digital initiative that explores media coverage of the HIV epidemic in Kenya over time and visualises key milestones along the way.
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As Kenya marks 50 years of independence, Kenya's health at 50 gauges the wellbeing of Kenyans through a review of key health indicators including life expectancy, birth rate, and maternal and child deaths as well as GDP over time.
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Land Quest explores the consequences of two competing financial interests: aid money flows into Kenya to help strengthen governance and natural resource management while private companies, from agro-industrialists to oil barons, profit from weak regulation and send that money back to Europe, undoing much of the development progress achieved though aid.
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In the first three decades of independence Kenyan families began to have far fewer children after Kenya became the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to encourage family planning.
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Kenya’s high child death rate of 73 per 1,000 children could be greatly reduced if the country were to employ simple and practical solutions to reduce preterm births and complications, which are the leading cause of death among newborns.
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Malnutrition is an underlying cause of more than one-third of under- five deaths worldwide. Additionally, it prevents millions of children around the world from reaching their full potential.
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While the world has made significant progress in gains in curtailing maternal and child deaths, such advances have been painfully slow in Kenya.
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In an odd twist of professional negligence, many doctors in Kenya expose their patients to new infections right inside the hospitals where patients go to seek cure. A big number of the doctors in the country rarely wash their hands after touching patients, even after coming into contact with bodily fluids.
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Over the last 10 years, Kenya has made progress in malaria control. However, the country is still far from defeating the disease.
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The brain drain of doctors from Kenya not only prevents the country from recouping the investment it makes in training the doctors but also threatens the very existence of the countries' health services.
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Contrary to the belief that Kenyan women do not perform well in political elections, the reality is that if they make it through the party primaries, they have as good a chance as men of being elected to political leadership positions.
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Since 2003, the Kenyan economy has been doing considerably well, recording positive growth above four per cent.
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There is growing scientific evidence that suggests that the earlier an HIV positive person starts treatment, the better the chances that he or she will live a long, healthy and productive life.
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Even as politicians and the Government call on Kenyans to maintain peace during this election period, Kenyans must examine the thinking that seems to suggest that elections make people violent.
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Did presidential candidates let good arguments get in the way of facts in the first ever presidential debate in Kenya's history?
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The health of the nation provides the most recent comparable indicators of health and health expenditure in the country's 47 counties.

The data that was sourced from several government departments in the Ministry of Health reveals great inequalities between counties. The results show that counties in marginalised areas are performing poorly in nearly all the indicators. The key indicators presented in the data include: Maternal health, nutrition, child health, health facilities and data on health financing as well as HIV, TB and Malaria for 2011 and 2012. Read More

Data Dredger is a Kenyan site on data journalism practice. It is a space built to exhibit the best data journalism practices as well as provide content, which journalists and newsrooms can use to build and enhance data storytelling.
Read More

30 Years of HIV is an interactive digital initiative that explores media coverage of the HIV epidemic in Kenya over time and visualises key milestones along the way.
Read More

As Kenya marks 50 years of independence, Kenya's health at 50 gauges the wellbeing of Kenyans through a review of key health indicators including life expectancy, birth rate, and maternal and child deaths as well as GDP over time.
Read More

In the first three decades of independence Kenyan families began to have far fewer children after Kenya became the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to encourage family planning.
Read More

Kenya’s high child death rate of 73 per 1,000 children could be greatly reduced if the country were to employ simple and practical solutions to reduce preterm births and complications, which are the leading cause of death among newborns.
Read More

Malnutrition is an underlying cause of more than one-third of under- five deaths worldwide. Additionally, it prevents millions of children around the world from reaching their full potential.
Read More

While the world has made significant progress in gains in curtailing maternal and child deaths, such advances have been painfully slow in Kenya.
Read More

Over the last 10 years, Kenya has made progress in malaria control. However, the country is still far from defeating the disease.
Read More

The brain drain of doctors from Kenya not only prevents the country from recouping the investment it makes in training the doctors but also threatens the very existence of the countries' health services.
Read More

Contrary to the belief that Kenyan women do not perform well in political elections, the reality is that if they make it through the party primaries, they have as good a chance as men of being elected to political leadership positions.
Read More

Since 2003, the Kenyan economy has been doing considerably well, recording positive growth above four per cent.
Read More

There is growing scientific evidence that suggests that the earlier an HIV positive person starts treatment, the better the chances that he or she will live a long, healthy and productive life.
Read More

Even as politicians and the Government call on Kenyans to maintain peace during this election period, Kenyans must examine the thinking that seems to suggest that elections make people violent.
Read More

Did presidential candidates let good arguments get in the way of facts in the first ever presidential debate in Kenya's history?
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5 Questions about Ebola, answered with infographics

Media misses opportunity to visualise Kenya’s Budget

Recent Infographics

Born too soon

The killer no one suspects

Antiretroviral coverage in Kenya

Malaria in Kenya

Fixing doctors shortage

Conflict prone areas in Kenya

Vaccinating babies

Cost of doctors emigration

East Africa’s scorecard

Poor hand hygiene

Smaller families, better health

Kangaroo care in Kenya

Stories in the Kenyan Media

Data Dredger is a Kenyan site on data journalism practice. It is a space built to exhibit the best data journalism practices as well as provide content, which journalists and newsrooms can use to build and enhance data storytelling. Read More

30 Years of HIV is an interactive digital initiative that explores media coverage of the HIV epidemic in Kenya over time and visualises key milestones along the way. Read More

As Kenya marks 50 years of independence, Kenya's health at 50 gauges the wellbeing of Kenyans through a review of key health indicators including life expectancy, birth rate, and maternal and child deaths as well as GDP over time. Read More

In the first three decades of independence Kenyan families began to have far fewer children after Kenya became the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to encourage family planning.Read More

Kenya’s high child death rate of 73 per 1,000 children could be greatly reduced if the country were to employ simple and practical solutions to reduce preterm births and complications, which are the leading cause of death among newborns.Read More

Malnutrition is an underlying cause of more than one-third of under- five deaths worldwide. Additionally, it prevents millions of children around the world from reaching their full potential.Read More

While the world has made significant progress in gains in curtailing maternal and child deaths, such advances have been painfully slow in Kenya.Read More

Over the last 10 years, Kenya has made progress in malaria control. However, the country is still far from defeating the disease.Read More

The brain drain of doctors from Kenya not only prevents the country from recouping the investment it makes in training the doctors but also threatens the very existence of the countries' health services.Read More

Contrary to the belief that Kenyan women do not perform well in political elections, the reality is that if they make it through the party primaries, they have as good a chance as men of being elected to political leadership positions.Read More

Since 2003, the Kenyan economy has been doing considerably well, recording positive growth above four per cent.Read More

There is growing scientific evidence that suggests that the earlier an HIV positive person starts treatment, the better the chances that he or she will live a long, healthy and productive life.Read More

Even as politicians and the Government call on Kenyans to maintain peace during this election period, Kenyans must examine the thinking that seems to suggest that elections make people violent.Read More

Did presidential candidates let good arguments get in the way of facts in the first ever presidential debate in Kenya's history?Read More