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Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhoea in young kids, hospitalising hundreds of thousands each year, and killing more than 200,000 children aged under five in Africa annually. There are no curative drugs for the disease, so health care workers are limited to providing supportive care to sick patients. Vaccines – offered when infants are six, ten and fourteen weeks old in Kenya – are the best prevention.
When fights break out between communities, the defeated party often retreats to avoid further damage. The Gosha community that inhabits the north-eastern part of Kenya is no different. Following the receipt of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX initiative, the Kenyan government supplied Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines to the county government of Mandera to ensure that even those inhabiting remote areas are immunised.
To reach its full life-saving potential, the RTS,S malaria vaccine demands a four-dose regimen. As Cyrus Michino found in Kenya’s Vihiga County, keeping families committed for such a long course is unique challenge for the health system.
Late in 2022, measles began to spread in Mandera county, northern Kenya. By mid-December, 140 cases had been confirmed. For Issack Adan, the county's public health director, the rate of spread was a clear and urgent warning. "We have over a hundred confirmed measles cases, and our kids' lives are at stake. We have to take action," he said.
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