Kenya Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Kenya with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top health headlines from Kenya. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=ke&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=ke" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "health", "country": "ke", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "health",
    country: "ke",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "health",
    "country"  => "ke",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=ke&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 12596,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a15e38af2eb6ce241784931827e0edb6",
            "title": "Q&A: Peter Hsin, BS, on perioperative ketamine and early postpartum depression",
            "description": "Peter Hsin, BS, discusses a meta-analysis linking perioperative ketamine to lower early postpartum depressive symptoms after cesarean delivery.",
            "content": "Giving ketamine or esketamine during elective cesarean delivery was associated with lower early postpartum depressive symptom scores, according to a meta-analysis presented as a poster at the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ ANESTHESIOLOGY 2026... [12896 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.contemporaryobgyn.net/view/qa-peter-hsin-perioperative-ketamine-early-postpartum-depression",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/contobgyn/a3b93db9f0da124021cb870bc63e6e5b6ca6f4b9-5843x3888.jpg?w=1200&fit=max&q=75&fm=jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T21:06:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "dd99c50b748fd43316fd3ca01b85479e",
                "name": "Contemporary OB/GYN",
                "url": "https://www.contemporaryobgyn.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "de7d4a89c915f6d90bffcd62a427aca1",
            "title": "Chickenpox vaccination catch-up campaign launched for children",
            "description": "An NHS catch-up vaccination campaign offering protection against chickenpox to all children aged four to six years is being launched.",
            "content": "An NHS catch-up vaccination campaign offering protection against chickenpox to all children aged four to six years is being launched this week.\nThe campaign is scheduled to run from November 2026 to 31 March 2028 and will offer a single dose of the m... [1987 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nursingtimes.net/public-health/chickenpox-vaccination-catch-up-campaign-launched-for-children-03-11-2026/",
            "image": "https://cdn.ps.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/INDEX_59448_Factsheet-CID-Chickenpox.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T19:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c82f2a201565748c08d3d8e6b26bdcae",
                "name": "Nursing Times",
                "url": "https://www.nursingtimes.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "aaca847f7bcac2ba9dfd9b86c5210d31",
            "title": "First Human Death From Bird Flu in a Year",
            "description": "A resident of Yakima County, Washington, died over the weekend after being exposed to infected cattle.",
            "content": "Avian influenza has popped up in several locations in the U.S. recently, and now the first human death in a year connected to bird flu has occurred in Washington state.\nA Yakima County resident, who had existing health conditions, was exposed to the ... [1231 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foodprocessing.com/food-safety/news/55416258/first-human-death-from-bird-flu-in-a-year",
            "image": "https://img.foodprocessing.com/files/base/ebm/foodprocessing/image/2026/11/6aea09c9c741d160ab038e7b-chickensadobestock_125986795.png?auto=format,compress&fit=fill&fill=blur&w=1200&h=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T16:35:22Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4518aadc8e56857756293f00ccbfe511",
                "name": "Food Processing",
                "url": "https://www.foodprocessing.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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