But first, let us start with medical researchers like Dr Rose Jalang’o, a public health specialist in ‘vaccinology,’ credited with the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01. Asked what the malaria vaccine means, Dr Njuguna told Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) in 2010: “An efficacious malaria vaccine would mean that we could reduce the burden of sickness and death to affected populations in Kenya. As the globe struggled with the management of patients, the late Prof Ndinya Acholla, focused his research on HIV vaccine and sexually transmitted infections (STI). Today, viral testing is the standard care in Africa.”But medical research requires tonnes of paperwork, investigations and serious studies of products, movements and interviews. the Sh250 million allocated to Kemri for medical research, yet it has 250 medical researchers meaning each gets a measly Sh1 million which in research is mere peanuts.

Source: Daily Nation December 11, 2022 22:44 UTC