Tanzania: Malaria Vaccine Coming Soon

Tanzanian children will be among the first in Africa to benefit from a malaria vaccine developed following a successful medical research. The vaccine has been proved to give significant protection against clinical and severe malaria while showing an acceptable safety profile.Researchers say the efficacy and safety results in six to 12-week-old infants would come out by the end of 2012 and added that the findings on the longer-term protective effects of the vaccine, 30 months after the third dose should be available by the end of 2014.

The report showing first results from a large-scale phase three trial of RTS,S vaccine were unveiled yesterday by the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in Dar es Salaam. They indicated that three doses of the vaccine reduced the risk of children experiencing clinical malaria and severe malaria by 56 per cent and 47 per cent, respectively.

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