Defrontera

27/11/2025

If you’re a journalist or digital storyteller who loves using data to engage audiences across social platforms, this role—Editor, Social Platforms & Audience Engagement—was designed for you. We're looking for someone who can manage our social channels, run our weekly newsletter, interpret data on how people interact with our platforms, and build relationships with the health and policy communities we serve.

Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Deadline: 10 Dec 2025
Apply: https://ow.ly/pYfy50Xy35w

20/11/2025

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is one of many tools we use to strengthen our mission of producing independent, explanatory health journalism that connects evidence to policy and helps communities make sense of complex issues. It never replaces our reporters.

Defrontera’s mission is to produce independent, explanatory health journalism that connects evidence to policy and helps communities make sense of complex issues. Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is one of many tools we use to strengthen this mission. It never replaces our reporters. We do not use A...

15/11/2025

“Super gonorrhoea” sounds like a meme until you realise what it actually means for your life.

When antibiotics stop working, the wound from your C-section or hip replacement surgery may take longer to heal or not heal altogether.

Your child can get pneumonia and die even after treatment.
This isn’t a “2030 problem.”
This is now.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) — a term the medical fraternity uses to mean the medicines we rely on can’t kill the germs making us sick — is already shaping health outcomes across Africa.

Defrontera and the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) are inviting journalists from across Africa to learn the scale of this crisis and report it accurately, country by country.

Fill out the form in the form https://forms.gle/PBnZ2hiadj8Tjrgz5

12/11/2025

When Joseph started coughing, sweating, and feeling weak, he had a deja vu. The last time this happened, he nearly died. Yet with this knowledge, he did not go to the hospital. Joseph's fear of going to the hospital is both understandable and deadly for Meru County and Kenya. Which disease is this? Juliani and Sheila Sendeyo answer in the comments.

05/11/2025

NEW: Strikes in public hospitals for months in counties near the capital. While Kenyatta National Hospital received women who were very ill, the data showed the deliveries remained unchanged. Doctors call the data “a warning signal.” So, where did the other women go?

Read our full investigation → https://ow.ly/AJMR50XmVUk

04/11/2025

For years, Kenya — one of the world’s 30 countries with the highest burden of TB and HIV — has survived on foreign aid to fight tuberculosis.

In 2024, the country needed US $157 million to keep its TB services running. The government contributed just 1.8%. The rest came from international donors — USAID, the The Global Fund, CDC, Unitaid, and the Stop TB Partnership.

From the first cough to the last pill, nearly every step in Kenya’s TB response has depended on them:
🧪The lab machines that test sputum
💊 The drugs that keep patients alive
🚑 The transport networks that reach remote villages
👩🏾‍⚕️ The community health workers who follow up on patients

Now, as those donors pull out, Kenya faces a dangerous question: who keeps the system breathing when the money stops?

Journalist Sheila Sendeyo and artist Juliani uncover the human cost in Gasping for Breath.

03/11/2025

PREMIERING TOMORROW. It’s one of the world’s oldest killers — and it’s returned stronger. In Kenya, Tuberculosis never left. It hid in silence, mutating, waiting.

In "Gasping for Breath" — a three-part Defrontera investigation — Juliani and Sheila Sendeyo follows the frontline battle to stop a disease reborn.

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Stop TB Partnership
Kenyatta National Hospital
The Global Fund

31/10/2025

29/10/2025

COMING ON NOVEMBER 4: Will the more than 124,000 TB patients in Kenya survive this? Find out on November 4, on https://www.youtube.com/

24/10/2025

We are building a newsroom where journalism can exist alongside artistry. If you’re ready to create work that lasts — this is your place, as our video producer.

� Full-time, Nairobi
� One-year renewable contract
� Applications reviewed on a rolling basis

Learn more and apply: https://forms.gle/kGYcDgxVTUcgWZ1r6

22/10/2025

You have seen some of the stories focused on humans on our platforms. Now we are looking for a visual journalist and producer: a creative who can turn complex health issues into powerful visual stories that can move people.
� Full-time, Nairobi
� One-year renewable contract
� Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Learn more and apply: https://forms.gle/kGYcDgxVTUcgWZ1r6

07/10/2025

The Ministry of Health will update the country's guidelines for preventing, diagnosing, and managing excessive bleeding after childbirth to align with the new evidence in the new one that the World Health Organization (WHO) launched at the FIGO Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), as it is known medically, kills nearly 3,000 women every year in Kenya. Globally, there are 45,000 maternal deaths out of a total of 260,000 in the world. Kenya's Head of Family Health, Dr Issak Bashir, said the Ministry will update the national PPH protocols "as soon as possible", as Anne Mawathe reports.