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Infectious Diseases

Malaria

  • New guidelines
    Malaria
    Monday 18 May 2026

    Kenya plans to rotate frontline malaria drugs amid resistance fears

    The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Kenya has finalised plans to rotate first-line malaria treatments, as growing evidence shows that the country’s most...

  • Mother with Malaria child
    Malaria
    Monday 27 April 2026

    Kenyan children are dying in a malaria diagnostic blind spot

    As she stepped out of the house to do her laundry, Millicent Achieng left her seven-year-old boy playing with his friends in Nyalenda Estate in Kisumu...

  • The mosquito
    Malaria
    Tuesday 26 August 2025

    Deadliest Bite: A Defrontera Special Series on Malaria

    To test a hypothesis, I asked five people — two adults above 30, a 6-year-old, and teenagers — a question: “Which is the world’s deadliest animal?”...

  • BANNERS
    Infectious Diseases
    Tuesday 26 August 2025

    As funding shrinks, could this Sh60 pill be Kenya’s Best defence against malaria? 

    As a mother of four, Phoebe Adhiambo prides herself on having conquered the jitters of new motherhood. Not every discomfort sends her into panic or...

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