Measles Stories
Measles vaccination was among the most affected, with around 178,000 children missing their first dose in 2024, making it the second least administere...
Hidaya, a community health promoter based in Nairobi, acknowledges the concerns being raised, particularly regarding the rubella vaccine. She notes th...
Unlike many other mosquitoes, Aedes mosquitoes are active during the daytime, and they are especially adapted to live in urban and semi-urban environm...
Over 4,000 “zero-dose” children—those who had never previously been vaccinated—have now received both MR and TCV vaccines.
The surge in infections in Nyali and Changamwe, where a 12-year-old is among those infected, has alarmed officials, who are now activating emergency r...
Between 2010 and 2019, measles vaccination rates declined in 100 of the 204 countries studied. Notably, 21 out of 36 high-income countries experienced...
The campaign, set to run from July 5 to 14, 2025, will offer typhoid vaccines to children aged 9 months to 14 years and measles-rubella vaccines to th...
The majority of new measles infections were among school-age children who had only one shot of the measles vaccine.
Health workers across Nairobi continue to urge parents not to delay childhood immunisations, emphasising that routine vaccines are now available in pu...
Recent studies indicate that the prevalence of autism in Kenya is rising, though it remains underreported due to limited access to healthcare services...
Nine regional depots across the country, including Nairobi, have already received the BCG vaccines from the central vaccine store in Kitengela.
Current statistics indicate that over 4,000 children in Matuga have not received the routine vaccines.
County Health Promotion Coordinator Ruth Areman asked parents and guardians to ensure the children receive the doses to protect them against the disea...
The purchase comes after the allocation of Sh1.25 billion to the ministry to urgently procure routine childhood vaccines, including BCG, Oral Polio, T...
The directive follows the launch of a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign aimed at protecting Ugandans from the mosquito-borne illness that h...
The governors listed shortages of essential vaccines routinely given out to newborns and children under five, including polio (OPV & IPV), BCG (for tu...
The organisation has warned that due to its highly contagious nature, measles could result in severe complications, including pneumonia, malnutrition...
WHO technical adviser Natasha Crowcroft says more than half of all countries globally are currently believed to be at high risk of measles outbreaks b...
In a bid to curb the deadly measles outbreak that has claimed 20 lives in Turkana County, health stakeholders have joined forces to establish case man...
