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Kang-Chun Cheng

Tricky to spot and cumbersome to treat, visceral leishmaniasis turns deadly in arid east Africa

Without treatment, the parasitic disease is an all-but-guaranteed killer, but the current therapy is no walk in the park. Could new drugs make all the difference?

26 Feb 2025
7 min read
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Outbreaks
Pkiror Adumgudung (in purple), who recovered from Kala-azar at Amudat Hospital last year, at home with his family in Narukum village in West Pokot. Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng
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A child collects water from a borehole tap in Manyatta Secondary of Laisamis town in northern Kenya's Marsabit County. Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng

Cholera, an old foe, is becoming a new kind of problem for Kenya

17 Apr 2024
7 min read
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Cholera
A toddler receiving the second of four malaria vaccine doses at Lumumba Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng

“The vaccine needs to be received by the greater population”: Dr Rose Leke reflects on the RTS,S roll-out

18 Jan 2024
4 min read
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Malaria
A boy leaps a rivulet in Baringo. Thorny mathenge trees dominate the landscape. Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng

The mesquite and the mosquito: Malaria threat spreads in Kenya's Rift Valley

31 Aug 2023
9 min read
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MalariaClimate change
A mother brings her daughter to Ring Road Clinic, inside the Nyalenda B slum in western Kenya, for the second of four malaria vaccine shots. Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng

"Malaria isn’t so big of an issue now, thanks to the vaccine”

25 Aug 2023
4 min read
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Malaria
 
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