Three more African countries have joined a rollout of malaria vaccines targetting millions of children in a continent that accounts ...
Three more African countries have joined a rollout of malaria vaccines targetting millions of children in a continent that accounts for 95 percent of malaria deaths, the UN said Thursday.
Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone joined other African countries offering the malaria vaccine as part of their childhood immunisation programmes, a statement by WHO and UNICEF said. “With the new, safe and efficacious malaria vaccine, we now have an additional tool to fight this disease,” Sierra Leone Health Minister Austin Demby said.
Benin received 215,900 doses while Liberia expects 45,000 children to benefit from its initial 112,000 doses.
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