WHO has rejected claims by NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga the anti-tetanus vaccine given to women in 2014 was laced with an agent to sterilize them.
The vaccine has been used in 52 countries to immunize more than 130 million women to protect them and their newborn babies from tetanus, WHO said.
Over that period, there has been a substantial decrease in neonatal tetanus and an increase in neonatal survival, and no signal of possible harm to pregnant women or their foetuses," the statement, signed by former WHO country representative Dr Custodia Mandlhate, read.
"It is important to note that testing for the content of a medicine, for example TT Vaccine, needs to be done in a suitable laboratory, and from a sample of the actual medicine or vaccine obtained from an unopened pack, not a blood sample," Unicef said in a statement.
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