Reports

First Kenyan case in 22 years suspected to come from Somalia Washington - A 3-year-old girl living in a refugee camp in Kenya's Garissa district has been stricken with the wild poliovirus, the first case to appear in the East…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 19 October (IRIN) - A polio immunisation campaign scheduled for early November has gained urgency with the identification of a case of the paralysing disease in a…

A case of wild poliovirus type-1, due to an importation of virus from neighboring Somalia, has been reported from a refugee camp in North Eastern Province of Kenya. The 3-year old girl, who has not traveled to Somalia, was…

by Jeff Otieno Nairobi, Oct 18, 2006 (The Nation/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) --Kenya has ordered an emergency polio immunisation campaign at all refugee camps. The action follows the detection of the first case of the disease in…

The Kenya Red Cross Society's mission is to build capacity and respond with vigour, compassion and empathy to the victims of disaster and those at risk, in the most effective and efficient manner. It works closely with the International…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ISIOLO, 17 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - Heavily pregnant and with a bullet lodged in her leg, Mary Lenayasa hitched, ran and trekked for two days to reach a…

By Anthony Mwangi and Peter Outa Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic disease that accounts for one in five of all childhood deaths in Africa. In Kenya, malaria affects 20 million people annually and about 170 million working days are lost…

By Anthony Mwangi, Kenya Red Cross Society Nyanza Province, in the western part of Kenya, has seen a high level of malaria cases that have resulted in a number of children being hospitalised. This is part of the reason…

(New York: 16 October 2006): The aid community has issued a $35 million Flash Appeal for Kenya to meet the needs of increasing numbers of Somali refugees over the next six months. Due to the fear of a wider civil…

A group of determined Kenyan livestock keepers set in motion an innovative collaboration that has benefited cattle-keeping communities throughout Kenya Starting in 2000, word started getting out among Kenyan pastoralists that a vaccine being administered in Tanzania was succeeding in protecting…