Kenya: Scholar Wins Top Award for Health Drive

Nairobi — A 30-year dedication to promoting community-based health care has earned a Kenyan scholar international recognition.

Prof Miriam Were, who was dismissed as a "dreamer" for her efforts to entrench community-based health care in the mainstream health programmes, is the proud winner of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize 2008.

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