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Kenya to roll out vaccines after 194 die of cholera

Kenya is battling a cholera outbreak that has claimed 194 lives in less than a year prompting the government to roll out emergency vaccination across eight counties. After prolonged drought, continuing rains are spreading waterborne diseases such as cholera with the country expecting torrential el nino rains later this year that is bound to aggravate the health concerns. The Ministry of Health has announced an Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) programme that will commence on Thursday to Saturday 12th August following a reported 11,872 cases and 194 deaths with some active cases from October last year to July 2023. The program targets people over the age…

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High food costs pushing up obesity rates in poor countries – IFAD

The widening gap between the cost of healthy and unhealthy foods in poor countries is driving obesity rates in both urban and rural communities globally, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says. Ccoupled with the unavailability of a variety of healthy foods, IFAD research says poor populations are increasingly left predisposed to the lifestyle disease. According to one of the studies reviewed (Headey 2019), IFAD notes that is 11.66 times more expensive to obtain a calorie from eggs in poor countries than it is to obtain a calorie from starchy staples, while in those same countries it is only 2.92 times more expensive to…

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