Kenya — News
Kenya — News
Ramping up COVID-19 vaccination among Kenya’s hard-to-reach communities
When Kenya’s Ministry of Health set its sights on reaching 10 million people with the COVID-19 vaccination by the end of 2021, many people like Lilian Anyango were not afraid of the myths circulating about the harm it could cause.
Read moreValuable Community Response Lessons for 2022
As 2022 begins, health experts in Kenya have enough to reflect and act on towards vaccine acceleration efforts and sustenance of COVID-19 preventive and safety measures. MOH in an effort to accelerate vaccinatio…
Read moreNo-cost diabetes care saving young lives in Kenya
Tala, Kenya — Four years ago 15-year-old Simon Maingi was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, but only after several hospital visits. Many children with this condition, which requires daily insulin administration to sur…
Read moreBreakthrough Malaria Vaccine – Ndhiwa Community Speaks Out
A day before the historic October 6, WHO ground-breaking decision on next steps for malaria vaccine, a group of community, opinion leaders, elders and parents in Ndhiwa sub-county, Homa Bay, Kenya, sat together to reflec…
Read moreCurbing COVID-19 in Kenyan public transport
Nyeri, Kenya—With COVID-19 cases continuing to rise in Kenya more than a year after the pandemic’s arrival in the country, public health measures remain at the centre of the response. In Nyeri, a town three hours north of Kenya’s capital Nairobi and the economic hub of Nyeri County, the local government recognized early that its citizens needed a deeper understanding of the importance of such measures and how to keep putting them into practice.
Read moreAlmost four million children set to receive measles rubella vaccine
Nairobi, 25 June 2021 – An urgent measles and rubella (MR) vaccination campaign was launched today in Kajiado County by the Government of Kenya, with support of World Health Organization, WHO, UNICEF, Gavi…
Read moreUrgent immunization response launched to tackle polio outbreak in 13 counties
Nairobi, 21 May 2020 – Over three million children across 13 counties of Kenya are to be vaccinated against polio by the Government, UNICEF, WHO and partners, after the virus was confirmed to be circulating in Garissa an…
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