The statistics are unbelievably bleak: According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Kenya is in the ranks of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa worst hit by the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) crisis with the rates standing at 20.3 % (WHO 2010), statistics that have stakeholders deeply worried.
This stark reality has jolted CSA Kenya, an advocacy organisation committed to creating awareness around and building capacity to combat the problem, to action with a view to turning things around.
CSA Kenya is banking on a raft of strategies to ensure that the NCDs' crisis is reduced: Bringing on board civil society leaders who can rally behind a policy framework designed to address NCDs, capacity building around youth health-care, pumping grant funding into selected civil service society entities committed to having an impact on youths and providing the organisational support that will translate into an impactful change among the youths.
A conference to be held at the iconic Intercontinental Hotel on 24, April from 8 am will seek to engage with the youths on the NCDs crisis given their significance to Kenya's well-being.
This is in keeping with CSA Kenya's initiatives aimed at empowering the youths with information and resources that will ensure that they are healthy.
The youths constitute about half of the over 40 million Kenyan population and most at risk.
CSA Kenya's Nairobi conference will help plug the huge information gap about NCDs that exists as the vast majority of youths lack information on NCDs.