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Vaccine delivers hope for families hit by malaria

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Malaria victim Samson Juma Okoth and his wife at their rural home in Homa Bay County. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

It was tragic. This disease is a monster, remarks Samson Okoth.

Mr Okoth expressed the pain of losing his seven children in five years to malaria.

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