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Nairobi ,Kenya
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Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
1/ Kenya has confirmed Ebola. Online, many don't believe it.
In Sierra Leone, similar mistrust kept pregnant women away: ANC visits fell 18%, stillbirths rose 24%.
Answering doubt openly helped. 🧵
@MoH_DRMH @MOH_Kenya @KenyaGovernors @psmuthoni @KEMRI_Kenya
@HonAdenDuale
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
🏠🩺 Does it matter who is in the room when your blood pressure is measured?
📚 Our latest research highlight finds that a Community Health Worker’s presence does not significantly affect blood pressure readings. However, a single measurement missed many people with hypertension.The team also introduced Automated Home Blood Pressure (AHBP) to distinguish home measurement from Automated Office Blood Pressure (AOBP).
The findings highlight the potential for simpler home screening while underscoring the need for better approaches to detect hypertension.
Read more here 👉: shorturl.at/onppn
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
| Mental Wellness Podcast |
I’m excited to announce a project I conceptualised two years ago, The Mental Wellness Podcast. @mentalwellpod
A platform created to reframe the narrative on mental health.
I’m glad to share and welcome you all to walk with me through this journey as I engage experts and persons with lived experience on mental health who will share their knowledge and insights that are key for good mental health and wellbeing.
Subscribe, listen, and join the conversation on You Tube and other social media platforms.
youtu.be/FZDJWMFLKtQ
| Mental Wellness Podcast |
The Mental Wellness Podcast is a platform created to reframe the narrative on mental health hosted by @CMwachonda
Subscribe, listen, and join the conversation on YouTube and other social media platforms.
youtu.be/FZDJWMFLKtQ
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
Tomorrow, we kick off the Fisherman's Art Workshop and Civic Engagement in collaboration with @CosterOjwang, @watendawili and @WillisRaburu. This will be a civic space where we use art, as a mirror of our society, to deliberate on not just where our country is, but which direction we want it to head in, and how we can all collectively ensure we achieve that vision.
We welcome all talented, passionate Kenyans in and around Bondo to join this space and take part in this conversation. This is the start of civic education done differently; through the universal language of humanity.
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer, largely because of a national vaccination program to prevent the disease. bit.ly/4wdz43d
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
People have learned a few psychological buzzwords on social media,like "gaslighting," "narcissist," "boundaries," and "toxic", and now they use them to run away from normal human conflict. Sometimes your partner isn't a "toxic narcissist violating your boundaries"; sometimes they are just annoyed, having a bad day, and you are actually the one who was wrong. We have weaponized therapy language to ensure we never have to apologize or compromise.
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
Before vaccines, babies got breastmilk, sunshine and love.
And 1 in 5 of them didn't live to see their first birthday
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
One of the most disheartening things for me is encountering patients whose mental health woes have a primarily social aetiology. How do I help someone who’s sniffing glue because it reduces their appetite & helps them cope with having no food to eat?
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
Today we celebrate the women who fought for the freedoms many take for granted; right to work, to earn, to choose our path, & to live life on our own terms & to the young girls redefining what it means to be a woman beyond the expectations placed on them💪🏽
Here is to feminism🥂
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
The emotional burden of parenting a child with autism in Kenya extends far beyond diagnosis.
📕 In a new blog published on @UKFIET #IamAPHRC’s Fridah Gatwiri Kiambati and Davis Muli Musyoki explore the lived realities of parents raising children with autism.
Drawing insights from conversations within a parents’ WhatsApp support group, the piece highlights the profound emotional labour caregivers carry including navigating stigma, broken services, financial pressures, and social isolation.
👉️ Read more: buff.ly/Rt1VO3u
#APHRCResearch #Autism #MentalHealth #InclusiveEducation #Kenya #EvidenceToPolicy
@MNgware @LucyWakiaga @Kilichobaki @atiabu @kadzomudzo @DMdiarafa @amveyange @CKyobutungi @Mulidavis @RatemoJuliet @williamsila @MangwanaVJ @deborahndlovu @ndonyesarah @njerimbuthia @Chris_Maero
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
This House Believes: AI Will Do More Harm Than Good to the Nation’s Mental Health. Where do you stand?
Join the Chiromo Great Debate Series as experts examine the impact of AI on mental health care.
#MyMentalHealthFirst #YourMentalHealthFirst #Tufunguke
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
Childhood Blood Pressure Predicts Longitudinal Decline in Vascular Function: The ExAMIN Youth SA Study
Higher blood pressure in prepubescent children predicts a faster rise in arterial stiffness (PWV) over just ~4 years.
👉Hypertension ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.…
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
🚨Webinar alert!🚨
🧠Curious about mental health research in Africa?
We’re diving into Mental health in sub-Saharan Africa through a clinical research lens with Dr. @Shindeh !
🗓️November 24th, 2025
🕒3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EAT
🔗: shorturl.at/sjD8y
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
It’s actually good to fail astronomically at least once in your life. It will humble you, shock your system, and strip away the illusion that everything must always go right. Once you’ve survived something that shakes you to your core, the fear around failing loses its power.
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
What a victory in Paris to celebrate Siya Kolisi's 100th Test! Merci @FranceRugby for a tough match 🇿🇦
#Springboks #ForeverGreenForeverGold #FRAvRSA
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
💡A game changer for pneumonia care!
The Steroids in Pneumonia (SONIA) trial led by @Shindeh and @TonyEtyang shows that adding low dose steroids to standard antibiotics could be a low-cost way to reduce pneumonia deaths and improve survival in resource-limited settings. This large multicentre pneumonia trial, conducted across 18 public hospitals in Kenya showed a significant reduction in 30-day mortality with low-dose glucocorticoids versus standard care providing vital evidence to inform global clinical guidelines strengthening pneumonia care.
🔗Read more here👉 : shorturl.at/6iX0X
Khadembu Lucinde retweeted
This pragmatic trial, led by @KEMRI_Wellcome colleagues @Shindeh @TonyEtyang , and conducted across 18 hospitals in Kenya, found that adjunctive low-dose glucocorticoids reduced mortality in adults with community-acquired pneumonia.
HOT OFF THE PRESS! A Pragmatic Trial of Glucocorticoids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2…