PS for Public Health, Mary Muthoni Muriuki, has called for enhanced preventative surveillance efforts to tackle the Andes strain of hantavirus and urged Kenya to move away from crisis response towards a long-term prevention strategy. Speaking at the Kenya Health Security Convention held in Mombasa, following the One Health Summit in Lyon and the World
Kenya has intensified its fight against malaria with a major shift in treatment policy. The Ministry of Health has introduced Multiple First-Line Therapies (MFT), a strategy that uses different antimalarial drugs at the same time to reduce resistance and improve patient outcomes. The update came during the ongoing World Health Summit Regional Meeting, where experts