NAIROBI, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Single country efforts in the management of malaria are to blame for the upsurge in cases of the disease in the East African Community (EAC) economic bloc, Kenya's Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Health Mutahi Kagwe said Thursday.
Kagwe said during the launch of the cross-border malaria control and prevention interventions at the Kenya-Uganda border in Busia, in western Kenya, that it is high time the EAC member states embark on a joint cross-border effort to reduce and finally eliminate malaria in the region.
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