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How to Deal With Nausea During Pregnancy

Nausea? Many people will experience it but how many know how to deal with nausea? Nausea is the unwanted feeling of uneasiness in the stomach that comes shortly before vomiting.…

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How Important is Breastfeeding Really

It is World breastfeeding week just in case it escaped you. Today Afyawatch explores the question on just how important is breastfeeding? The World Breastfeeding Week is aimed at enhancing…

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4 min

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I POISONED MYSELF WITH CHICKEN

I had not taken my favourite fried chicken for almost 3 months. It is hard sThe thoughts of having a drumstick with some thick soup for an occasional dipping pushed…

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Alcohol Enemas

Alcohol enemas: Public enemy number 1 or the cool new way to get drunk? Vodka tampon. It’s not a punk rock band. Though we wish it could be. Vodka tampons…

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A Mother in Kakamega Delivers 5 Children…

Her name is Everlyne Namukhula. She gave birth to 5 children at the Kakamega County Referral Hospital. She is now a mother of 9 because she has 4 other children. What…

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2 min

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5 Foods that are Rich in Iron

Iron is to the body what fuel is to a car. You need iron because it helps make the haemoglobin in red blood cells which in turn is used to carry oxygen…

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5 min

Life

What happens when your career is the epitome of boredom?

.It never seems to get better. At least not while the same scary thought of waking up to days in class incessantly reverberates in my young, aspiring and trying mind.…

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No one ‘wants’ to be raped

The following is based on a true story. Yesterday was hard to swallow. Even as I write this, I am tormented by what I saw. See I was on a…

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Teenage Mothers of Nakuru, and the Library Offering Sex Education

Photo courtesy of UNFPA Kenya An acrid smell sweeps past the cold room that hosts two beds in this shack in Bondeni estate. The bed, a rickety wooden piece that…

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