MIGORI, Kenya (AP) — As the coffin bearing the body of Rosebella Awuor was lowered into the grave, heart-wrenching sobs from mourners filled the air. Her sister Winnie Akinyi, the guardian to Awuor’s ...

New evidence shows that malaria vaccination is significantly reducing child deaths in Africa and could have an even greater ...

Turkana County in northwestern Kenya was thought to be too dry for the mosquitoes that harbor malaria-causing parasites. But that assumption may have been wrong, according to a new study by malaria ...

An international group of researchers estimates that, despite only moderate uptake of three doses and low uptake of the ...

Malaria, spread by Anopheles mosquitoes, is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. In Kenya, malaria remains a major health challenge, particularly for children under the age of five years. With ...

The number of deaths arising from Malaria in Kenya increased from 11,768 in 2020 to 12,011 in 2021, the latest report by the World Health Organization shows. At the same time, the number of Malaria ...

The burden of malaria has dropped from eight per cent to six per cent in the last six years, according to the Kenya Malaria Indicator Survey (KMIS) 2020. Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy ...

Mary Achieng’s family is in the malaria ward at Nightingale Hospital in western Kenya almost every month. On this visit in late August, she’s being treated along with her two sons, aged 4 and 12. All ...