Kenya tops Africa in availability of priority medicines for maternal health

Nurses attend to an expectant woman in hospital.

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Kenya has the highest availability of essential medicines to save mothers during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period, a new analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows.

The WHO Maternal Mortality Analytical Fact Sheet 2023 shows that Kenya leads the region with 73 percent availability of essential medicines, followed by Seychelles with 63 percent.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.