Malaria poses an enormous health and economic burden in Kenya, being a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the country. Recognizing this fact, the government of Kenya in consultation with local and international stakeholders undertook a comprehensive Malaria Programme Review which provided information leading to the development of the Kenya National Malaria Strategy (NMS) 2009 - 2017. The vision of the strategy is to achieve a "Malaria free Kenya."
Whilst there remain challenges in malaria control, significant successes have already been achieved through implementation of various malaria control interventions. At the DOMC, our mandate is to provide policy and strategic guidance and to co-ordinate the scaling up of effective malaria control interventions. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to walk with us, so that we can achieve our vision.
Ministry of Health has made it a policy in Kenya to adopt a well targeted Indoor Residual Spraying as an annual campaign 40- 60 days prior to the peaking of transmission annually (Usually between May-August). This then shifted the approach from that of epidemic preparedness and response to that of prevention and control. [Read More]
Approximately 1.5 million women become pregnant each year in Kenya, majority live in areas of moderate to intense transmission of malaria. Malaria infection poses a risk to the unborn child leading to abortion, stillbirth, congenital infection, low birth weight, prematurity and intrauterine growth retardation. [Read More]
Strategic health communication has been identified as an important cross-cutting intervention that empowers communities to take great responsibility in malaria control and creates an enabling environment for all Kenyans to participate in the fight against malaria. [Read More]
About 25 million of the total popuation of 33 million Kenyans is at risk of contracting Malaria. Each year about 34,000 children under 5 years of age die from malaria and about 8 million outpatient malaria treatments are recoreded at health facilities.
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