How diseases killing Kenyans have changed in 60 years

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A nurse administers malaria vaccine to a child in Vihiga County on March 7, 2023. PHOTO | ISAAC WALE | NMG

Sixty years after Independence, Kenyans still find themselves in hospitals for diseases that were killing in the 1960s, including pneumonia, diarrhoea, cholera, malaria, and the neglected tropical diseases.

Kenya is also experiencing an increase in the burden of diseases that were in the past labelled Western ailments, including diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure and cancer, anxiety, depression and heart disease.

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