The malaria vaccine had been administered to more than 1.6 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi since 2019 and shown to be safe and effective.
The Global Vaccine Alliance , the World Health Organisation and the UN Children’s Fund , on Wednesday announced that 12 African countries would receive malaria vaccine.
The RTS,S vaccine had been administered to more than 1.6 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi since 2019 and shown to be safe and effective.The WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said malaria remained one of Africa’s deadliest diseases, killing nearly half a million children under the age of five every year, and Africa accounted for approximately 96 per cent of global malaria deaths in 2021.
The initial 18 million dose allocation will enable nine more African countries to introduce the vaccine into their routine immunisation programmes for the first time.
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