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Early April amid the panicky crescendo of drumbeats for strong-arm solutions for managing COVID-19, my friends and I held series of online touch-base sessions. The friends were in four different continents- Africa (Kilifi, Kenya), America (Boston, USA), Europe (Leeds, England) and Asia (Kathmandu, Nepal). From the onset, we were struck by the commonality of the responses being adopted across the world – rapid militarization and medicalization of the pandemic all peppered in a variety of politicization.

Kenya like many other developing countries has a fragile and underdeveloped health care system. The government has prioritised “flattening the curve” for COVID-19 infections through non pharmaceutical measures.

Kenya Policy Briefs is a publication for researchers to present their work, explicitly aligned to the objectives of @KenyaVision2030.  Kenya

The main objective of this blog is to emphasize the importance of herbal medicine as a possible alternative and effective treatment of coronavirus disease 2019. Specific objectives include, to highlight:

Researchers should be careful when approached by some companies to submit articles or serve as editors on editorial Boards as in this fast growing age of technology, there are a lot of questionable and unscrupulous companies out there that purport to provide scholarly publications.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the whole world by storm bringing it to a virtual standstill. One of the economic sectors most hard hit is the travel and tourism industry. That is hardly surprising given that a record 1.5 billion tourists traveled internationally in 2019. The outbreak of the disease and its rapid spread across the globe saw heightened uncertainty in the sector as travelers required up-to-date and reliable information before deciding on their next destinations and itineraries.

UoN experts available to discuss COVID-19

May 20, 2020

With the continuously expanding COVID-19 pandemic, increasing numbers of patients and contacts are progressively posing a global challenge. Being novel, there is so much that is yet to be known about this virus and how to manage it. This scenario is not only true for conventional medicine, but is also applicable to herbal medicine and natural products. An ideal anti-COVID-19 medication (or a combination of agents) should be safe for patients while conferring three basic therapeutic effects (and/or preventive health benefits):

International students’ enrollment in higher education abroad has expanded considerably in the last decades. Emigration for tertiary education is becoming more common, particularly among students from developing countries. International students study at thousands of colleges and universities abroad. They contribute to the diversity and internationalization of their classrooms, campuses, and communities. For example, these students add different perspectives in the classrooms and enhance the mutual understanding and appreciation of the differences found around the world.

COVID19 has caused significant economic, social and religious disruption. It has, however, united governments to focus on the need to identify and limit the impact of COVID19, and to review their fiscal strategies in order to protect and sustain their economies. Consequently, social distancing measures have been imposed. These have taken the form of travel restrictions, border controls, closure of all organisations where uncontrolled human interactions take place (malls, learning institutions, religious gatherings), curfews and total lockdown.