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More women in Kenya are opting to give birth in health facilities – a safer option. Sometimes, the traditional birth attendants they are leaving behind are the people encouraging them to do so.
Grace Achieng’s first-born son missed out on all his vaccinations. The reason her younger children have been protected from the start is called Geoffrey Otieno.
Locals say that without regular visits from the health-facility-on-wheels, their children might have missed out on life-saving vaccinations.
Ninety-six percent of Vihiga’s babies have received all their basic childhood vaccines. That success, say area chiefs, is down to committed local partnerships of local leaders and health workers.
More than 3,200 Kenyan women die of vaccine-preventable cervical cancer each year, but teenaged athlete Stecy Bosse of Kisumu is racing to change that.