Keywords: Immunization, Polio, Whooping Cough, Measles, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Tuberculosis, Measles, Child Mortality, Kenya.

Abstract: This pamphlet, in the form of a comic book, informs us on six common diseases, their symptoms and how the consequences can affect a child's health and may even cause death.  It uses the story of a girl child who became susceptible to one of these illness because she was not immunized. These diseases include polio, tuberculosis, tetanus, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria. It provides information on the Kenya Expanded Program on Immunization (KEPI) clinics which Kenyans can visit to immunize their children.

 

It Takes a Child Death Sometimes...


Title: Its Takes a Child's Death Sometimes...

Author: Mazingira Institute

Published By: Ministry of Health, Government of Kenya, 1990.

Type of Publication: Comic Book, Educational Pamphlet