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Ahead of a major malaria forum set to begin in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday, the company behind the promising malaria vaccine has assured that the company would make an experimental malaria vaccine fairly priced, a key requirement by of some donors for its development.

Eliminating hunger and ensuring sustainable food security within the region is a necessary step towards poverty eradication, an East African Community council was told in Kisumu, Kenya.

Fredros Okumu of Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania is part of a group of researchers who have won a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. 

It is a semiarid area and hardly has anything one would compare with the rich green lands even in its own neighbourhood of Runyenjes, an area just on Eastern ends of scenic Mount Kenya. But a couple is determined to turn their patchy 11 hectares farm into money minting machine.

Increasingly finding it hard to convince donors of her ability to manage funds meant for HIV, Kenya now turns inwards to seek ways of raising funding gap particularly if the recently launched third AIDS strategy was to be realised.

The effect of the credit crunch is being felt across the globe with both developed and developing countries rushing to cut expenditure in key government departments. US President, Barack Obama signed a USD787 billion of rescue stimulus package last month, in a bid to save the US economy from further spiral.