Officials at Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) have said they are optimistic about the recent unprecedented developments in the search for a malaria vaccine, and hope soon there will be a vaccine to complement the existing measures to fight the disease.
A few days back, a vaccine candidate that was being tested in Africa demonstrated an unprecedented 77 percent efficacy, making it the first to reach the 75% efficacy target set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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