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A health worker speaks to MOH and UN officials at the launch of measles rubella campaign in Kajiado county. Almost 4 million children are targeted

Almost four million children set to receive measles rubella vaccine

25 June 2021

National Launch of polio campaign in Mombasa set for May 22-26 in 13 counties at risk

Urgent immunization response launched to tackle polio outbreak in 13 counties

21 May 2021

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 and Mombasa. The immunisation campaign was launched today in Garissa.
A door-to-door campaign will now take place from 22 to 27 of May in Garissa, Isiolo, Kajiado, Kiambu, Kilifi, Kitui, Lamu, Machakos, Mandera, Mombasa, Nairobi, Tana River and Wajir counties, as well as in the Dadaab refugee camps.

Dr Rudi Eggers, WHO Representative, Kenya, speaking during the vaccination launch. He was accompanied by MOH officials, Dr Patrick Amoth, Director General and Ms Susan Mochache, Principal Secretary

Kenya Third Wave Response: A time to synergize and re-energize

23 April 2021

Kenya Third Wave Response: A time to synergize and re-energize

President Uhuru Kenyatta flags off the COVAX consignment o the regions from the Central Vaccine stores this week

Kenya receives COVID-19 vaccines and launches landmark national campaign

06 March 2021

Dr Collins Tabu of national Vaccines programme, shows the storage of the Covax vaccines to Dr Rudi Eggers, WHO Rep, Ms Maxx UNICEF Rep and Dr Kibet Sergon during the visit to the Central vaccine stores in Kitengela

WHO Statement on the Catholic Doctors Association of Kenya Advisory on COVID‐19 Vacc...

04 March 2021

Keeping to the universal health coverage path in Kenya

11 December 2020

For 60-year-old Gabriel Wahome, it is simple: “universal health coverage was a very good idea,” he says. “We were happy about it.”

Kenyan communities taking the lead in curbing COVID-19 spread

02 July 2020

By the time the public health officials reached a Maasai community not far from Nairobi, Julius Oloiboni had already mobilized everyone to protect themselves and others against COVID-19.

Training of Rapid Response teams - Funds from EU-ECHO will build capacity of health workers and other COVID-19 Emergency response teams

The EU and WHO working Together to Defeat COVID-19 in Kenya

29 June 2020

PRESS RELEASE: JUNE 29, 2020

The EU through its Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO) has donated KES 270 million (2,573,105 Million Euros) to WHO Kenya. This grant will be used by the WHO to support the Government of Kenya’s efforts to control the spread of the pandemic. Specifically, WHO Kenya will boost the response effort by training frontline health workers at national and county levels and strengthen the current work being done by the COVID-19 rapid response and clinical teams across all counties.

Youth advocate in Kenya’s tobacco control drive

31 May 2020

Much earlier in her life, Martha Kombe, now 24, watched someone close to her fight lung cancer and lose. Since then she has made a vow to help people avoid the agony that comes with such a painful disease.

Malaria vaccine pilot in Africa one year on: new vaccine could boost Kenya’s malaria...

24 April 2020

Oblivious to the auspicious occasion, a bundle of children winced and gasped as they received their vaccinations. But in that moment, as they clung even tighter to their mothers, they became Kenya’s first children to receive the malaria vaccine through a historic pilot introduction programme initiated in Africa one year ago. Today, on this World Malaria Day, about 82 000[1] Kenyan children in pilot areas have received their first dose of the vaccine and are benefiting from the added protection against malaria.

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