2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
2025 Intake Open University of Kenya

Vihiga County

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A healthcare worker administer the malaria vaccine to a child during the launch of the accelerated use of the vaccine in Vihiga county. PHOTO/Ministry of Health.

HEALTH: Kenyan mothers hail world’s first malaria vaccine

In 2015, Brigit Atieno from Homabay county lost her two-year-old son, who succumbed to malaria.  For the 40-year-old mother of three, delay in seeking medical assistance for her late son cost his life. “It was late...
A woman fetching water. Millions of Kenyans have no access to clean water. The Water Project is determined to reduce the number by providing access to clean water for human and animal consumption. PHOTO/Courtesy.

Hopes high in Vihiga as The Water Project, county, ink MOU

Situated on Africa’s eastern coast, Kenya is typically a very humid country with intermittent water shortages brought on by current global warming, which also causes significant drought and flooding in various regions.  The situation is...