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Why this preventable killer disease, cholera, will not leave us anytime soon

Kenyans will continue dying of cholera in the coming decades because the country is yet to meet set targets for safe waste disposal and clean water provision.

Speaking in July 2007 after signing the first National Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Policy, the then Health Minister Charity Ngilu promised that by the end of this year, 90 per cent of Kenyans would have clean water and their waste safely disposed of.

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