As the country joined the world in marking the World Malaria day on Monday, big strides have so far been taken towards liberating the country from the threatening mosquito-carried disease.
As Wago Ejersa notes, Kenya has been recording success each year in fighting malaria.
According to health records in the World Malaria Report 2015, Malaria still remains a threat to the global health, especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa. WHO said that it recorded 438,000 malaria-related deaths in 2015 which indicate a decrease in number as compared to the records obtained in the 2014 survey report.
In Kenya, malaria still remains a challenge in the lakeside region with most deaths recorded in those areas and as Ejersa puts it, Kenya now has an annual record of less than fifteen percent of Malaria cases as compared to the past years that could record up to over 30 percent.
The success, he says, has been attributed to a newly developed vaccine Mosquirix that is globally accepted for treatment of malaria cases in countries that have so far been piloted with, of which Kenya happens to be among them.
Ejersa attributes the use of mosquito nets and public awareness as the greatest pillars that have seen the country record such low incidences of the disease. However, he advised all people to sleep under treated mosquito nets.
Expectant women and young children remain vulnerable to the disease due to their weak body immune.