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Liberia:
New Malaria Vaccine Shows Effectiveness in Children
Informer, 20 October 2011
Seattle, 18 October 2011: First results from a large-scale Phase III trial of RTS,S, published online on 18 October 2011 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), show the… Read more »
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Tanzania:
Malaria Vaccine Coming Soon
Citizen, 19 October 2011
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… Read more »
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Kenya:
New Vaccine Fights Malaria Better, Study Shows
Nation, 19 October 2011
War on malaria has gone a notch higher. A new vaccine has proven it can give children significant protection against the deadly disease that is responsible for close to 800,000… Read more »
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Nigeria:
World's First Malaria Vaccine Debuts
Daily Trust, 19 October 2011
An experimental vaccine produced by pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline has reduced by half the risk of African children getting malaria in a major clinical trial. This makes it… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Malaria-Induced Deaths Drop by 20 Per Cent, Says Report
This Day, 19 October 2011
The huge number of persons often killed by malaria every year across the world has dropped by 20 per cent in the last decade, a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has… Read more »
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Africa:
Malaria Vaccine Trials Offer New Hope to Children
allAfrica, 18 October 2011
A malaria vaccine undergoing trials across Africa show that it reduced the risk of clinical malaria by half in children aged five to 17 months - a result that health experts say… Read more »
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Africa:
Vaccine Cuts Malaria Risk by Half for 5-17-month-old Children
PATH, 18 October 2011
First results from a large-scale Phase III trial of RTS,S, published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), show the malaria vaccine candidate to provide young… Read more »
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Africa:
Keynote Address at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2011 Malaria Forum - Optimism and Urgency
WHO, 17 October 2011
Distinguished scientists, colleagues in public health, ladies and gentlemen, Read more »
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Africa:
Malaria Deaths Drop by 20 Percent Since 2000 - Melinda Gates
Gates Foundation, 18 October 2011
Three hundred leading malaria scientists, global health leaders, policymakers, government officials and advocates gathered today at the Malaria Forum to discuss great strides in… Read more »
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Africa:
New Promise of a Malaria Vaccine
GAVI, 18 October 2011
New results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine about a large-scale Phase III trial conducted in seven African countries of the malaria vaccine candidate… Read more »