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New Hope for Ending Malaria Among Children
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Photo 1 of 7Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine InitiativeA mother watches over her ill child: Three doses of a malaria vaccine undergoing clinical trials reduce the risk of children aged between five and 17 months from experiencing clinical malaria - by 56 percent - and severe malaria - by 47 percent. -
Photo 2 of 7Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine InitiativeA doctor attends to a child with malaria at a pediatric ward in Kisumu, Kenya. This site is one of 11 in seven African countries conducting a trial of the vaccine. -
Photo 3 of 7Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine InitiativeA nurse administers the first vaccination to a child in the trial. -
Photo 4 of 7Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine InitiativeDr. Salim Abdulla, principal investigator at a trial site in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, stands with the first children to be vaccinated at the start of the trial in May 2009. -
Photo 5 of 7Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine InitiativeA worried mother, bedside, in the Siaya District Hospital in Siaya, Kenya, another trial site. -
Photo 6 of 7Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine InitiativeA mother signs her daughter in at a hospital in Kilifi, Kenya - also a trial site. -
Photo 7 of 7Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine InitiativeAnother mother takes her child to Kilifi District Hospital to receive a vaccination.
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