Health Stories from Africa. Told with depth, dignity, and Purpose.
Exploring the people, policies and systems shaping health across Africa.
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People & Health
Maternal & newborn health · Child health · Gender & health · Mental health · Community health
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Health Systems
Health systems & policy · Surgery & anesthesia safety · Global health policy & financing
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Health Security
Outbreaks & health emergencies · Antimicrobial resistance · Vaccine equity
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Climate & Innovation
Climate & health · Health innovation & technology
Featured stories
Latest stories
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Tea, tears, and the babies we never got to hold
Read more →: Tea, tears, and the babies we never got to holdI met my friend Lucie at our favourite café. We set our dinner for 6 pm. This would give us just enough…
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Five Surgeries, One Constant: The Nurses Who Stayed
Read more →: Five Surgeries, One Constant: The Nurses Who StayedI have been on a hospital bed more times than I ever imagined I would. Five surgeries. Different reasons. Different outcomes. But…
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The story behind my passion for maternal health and child mortality
Read more →: The story behind my passion for maternal health and child mortalityAs published on February 3, 2014 Millennium Development Goal 5 is about improving Maternal Health. MDG 5, as is commonly known, is ‘the…
About
A record of things worth noticing.
Award-winning Kenyan journalist Lourdes Walusala founded Health Binder, whose work spans journalism, global health, and strategic communications.
After more than a decade of reporting and storytelling, she created Health Binder as a space for health stories that often need more time, context, and humanity than traditional news cycles allow.
Today, the platform is growing into a broader home for African health journalism, with space for contributors, experts, healthcare workers and storytellers from across the continent.