You leave your most precious possession —your child — in her care although you may not know much about her health, and especially her HIV status.

The children like her so much that they fondly — and ignorantly — use some of her personal items like toothbrush without your knowledge. In her sheer ignorance or maybe apathy, the girl allows this dangerous habit to continue until you discover when it is too late — when the children have contracted HIV. This is the misfortune that befell the Ngure’s (not real name) whose two children contracted HIV by sharing a.........

 

The best Mathematics teacher is 25 and only two years out of university. Mr Benjamin Kimuyu, fresh out of Kenyatta University, took over the class in Form Three and taught them for two years. That class emerged the best in the country in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams. Of the 22 students at Maasai Girls Secondary School in Ngong, Kajiado, 15 had straight As in maths. The lowest score was an amazing B-. “All subjects are equal, all it takes is a positive attitude,” the teacher told the Nation at the school on Wednesday. What is his magic potion? ....

For Pennies, a Disposable Toilet That Could Help Grow Crops

A Swedish entrepreneur is trying to market and sell a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet for urban slums in the developing world.

Once used, the bag can be knotted and buried, and a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off disease-producing pathogens found in feces.

The bag, called the Peepoo, is the brainchild of Anders Wilhelmson, an architect and professor in Stockholm. “Not only is it sanitary,” said Mr. Wilhelmson, who....

Man suffers from mysterious skin ailment