Health Alerts

A council established to tackle malaria elimination is to focus on the counties of Busia and Siaya, near the northern shores of Lake Victoria. The health minister last week remarked that the malaria rates in the two western counties were six times the national average. While malaria incidence has reduced across the country by nearly 75 percent since the year 2000, there are still around 36 million people considered to be at a high risk of infection. Read More