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The silent scourge that robs Kenyans of dignity, health

Kezia Kitonga, a laboratory technologist at Jomvu Sub-county hospital takes a child through Neglected Tropical Diseases vaccination as health officials look on during NTD World Day. [Jayne Rose Gacheri, Standard]

Imagine waking up one morning to find your leg swollen and painful. You assume it’s an insect bite, maybe a sprain.

Days pass. It swells more and people begin to whisper. Soon, you can’t walk without pain. You stop going to work, the neighbours think you’re cursed.

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