Kenya joins malaria vaccine rollout

Updated September 13 2019 - 4:48pm, first published 4:42pm
Malaria vaccinations are important because measures like mosquito nets were ineffective, Kenya says.
Malaria vaccinations are important because measures like mosquito nets were ineffective, Kenya says.

Kenya has added the world's first malaria vaccine to the routine immunisation schedule for children under two, becoming the third country in Africa to roll out the vaccine for the disease that kills one child globally every two minutes.

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