Researchers found four major themes, "controversy and confusion," "we need to do more: condoms might help," "not for Kenyans or from Kenyans," and "stigmatized associations." Findings provide needed insight into the socio-cultural context surrounding condoms in Kenya that is often lacking within health promotion and HIV prevention programs. These items were systematically examined for the manner and content of manifest and latent references to condoms. Qualitative content analysis was conducted for 91 items from the Daily Nation including articles, letters to the editor, columns, opinion and editorial pieces, advertisements, and cartoons. In order to better understand the socio-historic context of discourses about condoms in Kenya, this study explored how condoms were covered and represented in the Kenyan Daily Nation newspaper from 1989-2003.
Promotion of condom use is one prevention strategy embraced in global health prevention of HIV, but use remains relatively low in Kenya. Nairobi News is the most trusted website in Kenya that provides the latest breaking news, entertainment news, sports news, showbiz and celebrity stories. A variety of news and commercial web sites have also been created, in both English and Swahili.HIV/AIDS has been a pressing problem in the East African country of Kenya for over 20 years. NMG’s radio outlets include Easy FM in Kenya, KFM and Dembe FM in Uganda.
On the broadcast front, the Nation Media Group operates television outlets in Kenya, NTV and QTV, and in Uganda NTVU, as well as the recently launched Spark TV that is dedicated solely to women.
In Tanzania, Mwananchi Communications Limited publishes three dailies, Mwananchi and Mwanaspoti, in Swahili, and The Citizen in English. In Uganda, Monitor Publications Limited publishes the Daily, Saturday and Sunday Monitor. In Kenya, Nation Newspapers publishes the Daily and Sunday Nation and Taifa newspapers as well as the Business Daily and a regional weekly, The EastAfrican. NMG's market share dominance is underpinned by state-of-the-art printing technology, investment in professional development and a highly-subscribed internet presence. The electronic version of a daily newspaper from the Kenya coast, with county. Majority-owned and run by East Africans, the Group’s operations include a number of English and Kiswahili national newspapers, a regional weekly, several radio and television stations, a strong presence in on-line, digital media and has diversified into magazines, directories, publishing and courier services. (Online) - Nairobi, Kenya : The Nation Media Group, Ltd., 2007. It will put the family in pole position to overtake former President Moi’s family, which owns Standard Group, Kenya’s second largest (TV, radio and newspaper). NMG has created multiple media opportunities to inform, educate & entertain. If the Kenyatta family buys the Nation, it will have a firm control on national agenda and opinion, as Daily Nation is the widest circulating newspaper.
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