Kenya becomes third African nation to introduce malaria vaccine
Homa Bay programme is the government’s first step towards creating awareness of world’s first malaria vaccine
13 September 2019 - 09:35
Nairobi — Kenya on Friday added the world’s first malaria vaccine to the routine immunisation schedule for children under two, becoming the third country in Africa to roll out the vaccine for the disease that kills one child globally every two minutes.
Malaria is a top killer of children under five in the East African nation, and the vaccine is critically important to its efforts to combat the disease because other measures such as mosquito nets have not proven adequate, the director-general of Kenya’s health ministry, Wekesa Masasabi, told Reuters...
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