UN endorses world's 1st malaria vaccine as 'historic moment'

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The World Health Organization has endorsed the world's first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to fight the spread of the parasitic disease.

are in saving lives and reducing hospitalizations, even if they don’t directly reduce transmission,” he said.

“We’re confronted with extraordinarily complex organisms,” he said. “We are not yet in reach of a highly efficacious vaccine, but what we have now is a vaccine that can be deployed and that is safe.” Sian Clarke, co-director of the Malaria Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the vaccine would be a useful addition to other tools against the disease that might have exhausted their utility after decades of use, like bed nets and insecticides.

Azra Ghani, chair of infectious diseases at Imperial College London, said she and colleagues estimate that giving the malaria vaccine to children in Africa might result in a 30% reduction overall, with up to 8 million fewer cases and as many as 40,000 fewer deaths per year.

 

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We will continue to develop these viruses with this Covid infection. You happened to be saved with this onset, but you don't know next time. We usually die from some infectious disease. Or be killed. Amen

How come they always test new vaccines in Africa?

Has WHO (HOW) been disbanded yet?

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