Kenya’s economy and indeed the rest of the world lose huge sums of financial resources and productive man hours to malaria. This is one of two top killer diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Today the disease is one of the main health and socio-economic burden that annually strains the sca

As the World Malaria Day is marked, 34 year old Virginia Gathoni is not taking chances. She has acquired two insecticide-treated nets to protect her four month old babies from malaria. She encourages the general public to be vigilant in ensuring family members are healthy by adopting preventive m

The RTS, S vaccine is presently on clinical trials in 11 African countries. Mothers whose children are the clinical trial have reported significant improvement due to reduced disease incidence. But scientists have questioned the rationale of pursuing a vaccine that is only 50 per cent effective a

RTS, S is the world’s most advanced malaria vaccine candidate and the first to demonstrate in clinical traits that it can protect young children living in malaria-endemic areas against infection and clinical disease caused by the malaria parasite.

Malaria is responsible for 15-25 percent of all deaths of children under the age of five. Pregnant women are also at risk since the disease is responsible for a substantial number of miscarriages and low birth weight babies. In order to fight malaria in the country there is need to equitably dist

World Health Organization has recommended artesunate for severe malaria in adults since 2006, but has now revised its guidelines to include children based on the findings from nine-country trial in Africa in 2010, which found out that for every 41 children treated with artesunate instead of quini

According to The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (unicef) an estimated 800,000 people die every year from malaria, with approximately ninety per cent of these deaths occurring in Africa, where the disease accounts for one in six childhood deaths.

The government plans to start procuring locally manufactured anti-malaria drugs and equipment to lower the cost of treatment. The country is however, bound by rules of some of its health financiers like the Global Fund to purchase HIV and Malaria drugs only from the World Health Organization.