Some 18 million doses of the first RTS,S malaria vaccine will be delivered to 12 African countries until 2025, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) announced on Wednesday. “Malaria remains one of the deadliest diseases in Africa, where it kills almost half a million children under …
Read More »New vaccine to reduce malaria deaths by 70% soon available
The medical journal The Lancet published the results of a second malaria vaccine on Thursday, a year after the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a first vaccine. According to figures published in The Lancet, the R21 Matrix-M vaccine developed by scientists at Oxford University is between 70% and 80% effective …
Read More »Good news as the world now has a vaccine against malaria
The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly African children. The move follows a review of a pilot program rolled out since 2019 in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in which more than …
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