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    "id": 98699,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "DFID and USAID for the role they have played in funding and facilitating prevention and control of malaria. I am shocked that the same hon. Member, Mr. Kaino, is saying that the institute headquarters should be in Keiyo Valley. I have a feeling that, if we want to set up the institution headquarters because of malaria prevalence, then that institute should be based in Kisii. It should be based in Trans Mara and other areas with high prevalence rates. However, I think that is for the committee. Finally, I want to give the mandate of the Institute of malaria Control and Prevention. I think we need to be very specific. We need to come up with a strategy, as Government, that will provide malaria prevention and treatment, especially to pregnant women. That should be an affirmative action. We want to be very clear. We need to deal with the vulnerable; pregnant women and children below five years. Those are the vulnerable groups that malaria attacks. We must ensure that insecticide-treated nets are provided to poverty stricken communities in this country. Many Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and the Government are doing that, but we must have affirmative action and a specific budget line. As a country, we must have a strategy of improving Malaria epidemic preparedness and response. We do not want to be fire-fighting all the time. We must have a strategy. That is why I said that the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation has the Kenyan National Malaria Strategy Programme. Above all, we must have information, indication and communication. We must have education for our people. We must provide civic education and communication. Finally, monetary evaluation and research should be the main mandate of that institute. However, we feel that the institute should be independent. Our reservations on this Bill will be addressed at the Committee Stage. With those few remarks, I support this Bill."
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