Kenya travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Kenya, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Kenya: Masai Mara, Diani Beach.
Required to enter
- Yellow fever certificate if arriving from a country where yellow fever is present — including via a long layover in one
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Typhoid
- Tetanus up to date
- Malaria prophylaxis — the Mara is a malaria area, though Nairobi itself is not
- Rabies for longer stays
- Cholera for extended rural stays
Emergency number
999 or 112 — but AMREF and private ambulance services respond far faster
Care for visitors
Limited
Nairobi has the best hospitals in East Africa and they are genuinely good. In the Mara you are hours from any of them by road, so camps rely on the AMREF Flying Doctors air ambulance — check whether your camp holds cover, and whether your insurance does.
Malaria prophylaxis is strongly advised for the Mara. Do not drink the tap water. Altitude in Nairobi (1,795m) is mild but noticeable on the first day.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
