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Africa: New Malaria Vaccine Will Save Lives of Millions of Children
allAfrica, 2 October 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a new, inexpensive malaria vaccine to prevent malaria in children that can be produced on a massive scale. Read more »
New Malaria Vaccine To Save Lives of Millions of Children
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a new, inexpensive malaria vaccine to prevent malaria in children that can be produced on a massive scale, reports Jerry Chifamba for allAfrica.
The new vaccine is expected to be made available in mid-2024, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director-general has announced.
In its announcement of the news, Oxford, which developed the vaccine with the Serum Institute of India, said the institute already has the capacity to produce 100 million doses a year and can boost this to 200 million doses annually over the next two years.
One of the worst scourges on humanity, malaria kills primarily children and infants. Tedros said that in 2021 there were an estimated 247 million cases, with 619,000 deaths.
At least 28 countries in Africa plan to introduce the malaria vaccine as part of their national immunization programmes, WHO says.
A child receives the new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, during trials in Kiwangwa, Tanzania.
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