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It was the latest of five deaths in this family attributed to malaria. The disease is common in Kenya, and it is preventable and curable, but poverty makes it deadly for those who can't afford ...
Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced this week a "significant step" in the fight against Malaria as the East African nation expands its use of the world’s first-ever malaria vaccine. The ...
Malaria remains a major public health problem in Kenya and accounts for an estimated 16 percent of outpatient consultations. Malaria transmission and infection risk in Kenya are determined largely by altitude, rainfall patterns, and temperature, which leads to considerable variation in malaria prevalence by season and across geographic regions.
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The slums have a high prevalence of respiratory diseases, Malaria, HIV AIDS and waterborne diseases. The slums were earmarked areas more at risk in the spread of the COVID-19. [9] [10] In 2017, among other slum areas in Nairobi, Mukuru was declared a Special Planning Area.
Kakuma is one of two large refugee camps in Kenya; the second and bigger one is Dadaab. Malnutrition, communicable disease outbreaks, and malaria are all ongoing problems, while donor support has faltered due to conflicts in other parts of the world. [3] Many people in Kakuma are long-term refugees, living in hopelessness and desperation.
(Reuters) - In Ghana and Kenya, insecticide and mosquito nets sit in warehouses because U.S. officials haven’t approved urgent anti-malaria campaigns. In Haiti, a group treating HIV patients ...
Children account for the majority of both local and global malaria cases [7] because they lack the adaptive immunity that comes with repeated exposure. [8] Other examples of holoendemic diseases include ocular trachoma in certain areas in sub-Saharan Africa, where virtually all children in those populations have been infected, [ 9 ] and ...