Kenya

Every year, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) fills paediatric wards with babies who struggle to breathe, but now a vaccine that protects them before birth is now licensed in Kenya.   At the Annual Scientific Congress of the Association of Progressive Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Kenya (APOG-K) in Nairobi, a panel of paediatric, obstetric and midwifery experts set […]

If you want to understand why some maternal vaccines succeed and others stall before they’ve even begun, Dr Hellen Barsosio has a starting point that might surprise you.   Dr Barsosio a Principal Clinical Research Scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), working alongside the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.   She also leads Kenya’s arm […]