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Kenya set to receive malaria vaccine as disease is ranked highest killer

Eveline Awuor after picking two mosquito nets at Nyalenda maternity hospital in Kisumu county on May 5, 2021. [File, Standard]

There is a silver lining in the fight against malaria after Kenya was listed alongside 12 other African countries set to receive 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine in the next two years.

The vaccine has been allocated at a time when malaria is ranked the highest killer disease in Kenya, according to newly-released data from the Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS).

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