health

Bank on Me: Breast Milk Donations to Help Vulnerable Kids

by TAP Team|09 August 202109 August 2021|health, Lifestyle

The importance of breast milk to infant nutrition is second to none. In fact, WHO in acknowledging the same has encouraged exclusive breastfeeding and skin-to-skin practice to reduce infant mortality rates and donated breast milk as the first alternative for...

Love Letter to the culture

by Ilex Ribeiro|07 July 202007 July 2020|Columns, health

Love letter to the culture. Tonight I can’t sleep. I’m in my feelings. Yesterday was a good day, but I can’t get this off my mind. Forget all this tossing and turning; let’s rewind it a couple of months.

Are you living a healthy sexual life?

by tapmedia|21 April 201721 April 2017|health, Lifestyle

Are you living a healthy sexual life? Sexuality is a central part of who we are as human beings. Our abilities and choices around reproduction, intimacy, and sexual expression are very crucial. The study of human sexuality as a science...

Obesity Among Kenyan and Canadian Children-By Dr Stella Muthuri

by Moses Mutabaruka|23 November 201523 November 2015|Education, health, Interview, Lifestyle

Dr. Stella Muthuri research aimed at investigating the prevalence of, and factors associated with physical activity and overweight/obesity among school aged children in Kenya and Canada. This research involved examining the influence of social determinants of health such as school...

Sickle Strong Initiative – Dr. Marie Ojiambo

by Moses Mutabaruka|19 November 201519 November 2015|health, Lifestyle

I was born into a family of four (second born) children where my brother, our first born also suffers full-blown sickle cell disease. My two younger siblings do not suffer the condition, one having normal hemoglobin while the other is...

Is a Fruitarian diet for you?

by Olivier Masabarakiza|13 October 201513 October 2015|health, Lifestyle

So what exactly is a fruitarian diet you ask? You have probably heard of a vegetarian or vegan diet. In case you haven’t, here is a simple definition: A vegetarian is someone who does not consume meat and a vegan...

Why Aren’t You A Vegan?

by Ilex Ribeiro|13 June 201513 June 2015|health

Let's talk about a topic so frequently overlooked, especially in our Afrikan spheres: the vegan diet! Yes, that stupid fad of refusing the consumption of animal products, as some would put it. You see, whenever It's dinner time and I...

The Crazy Project: Talking About Mental Health

by tapmedia|13 October 201413 October 2014|health

The mental health commission of Canada reports that one in five Canadians experiences a mental health problem or illness, with a cost to the countries economy of well in excess of $50 billion. That only "one in three people who experience...

#KWIBUKA20: Let’s Talk Mental Health

by tapmedia|13 June 201413 June 2014|health

Our community was greatly affected by the genocide and exposure to so many traumatic events that left so many children, women and men having to live with haunting memories and who have to find ways to cope with life and...

Kwibuka20; Twenty Years In The Mind Of A WarChild

by Moses Mutabaruka|04 April 201404 April 2014|health

20 years ago this week, Rwandans who had long believed that God walked the world during the day and slept in Rwanda were left to deal with the worst possible evil when God presumably forgot about the tiny African country!!...

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