Pilot phase of biometric vaccination system for Kenyan newborns goes live

The rollout of a biometric system to manage the vaccination journey of children below the age of five years in Kenya has begun on a pilot at a hospital in the poor Kinango sub-county ahead of a planned nationwide deployment.

This pilot comes after a clinical trial which researchers said was successful.

The technology, which was developed thanks to a tripartite partnership of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), NEC Corporation and the Japan Nagasaki University, is designed to make …

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