Young men pulling carts, women selling groceries, children playing ‘kalongolongo’ (cookery game), welcome to Ribakia Community Unit (CU), Embakasi West sub-county, Nairobi County in Kenya. Ribakia is home to thousands of households, striving hard to put food on the table. This zeal, however, sometimes comes with neglect of personal health with preference for easily available fast foods, poor hygiene, lack of exercise, and lack of adequate rest. This unhealthy lifestyle has made it difficult for some household members to manage contracted non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like asthma and diabetes. It is with this in mind that GSK, in partnership with Amref Health Africa, developed training on managing asthma and diabetes, rolled out through Leap, the mHealth platform.
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