How did people living with chronic disease access care and manage their conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic, faced with anti-epidemic measures that limited access to healthcare facilities and professional expertise? Drawing on ethnographic work with cancer patients and their families in western Kenya, we explore how forms of care and responsibility embedded in family relations and support networks came to the foreground during the pandemic.
Contact: Ruth Prince
![Erick Okioma, Kenyan HIV activist of the first hour and leader of HIV community groups that, 2 weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic, have shifted to producing facemasks and Covid-education.](/helsam/english/research/projects/epidemics-african-health-systems/Projects/chronic-disease.jpg)