WHO endorses first-ever vaccine against malaria

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The WHO recommended on Wednesday administering the only approved vaccine against malaria to African children, potentially marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually.

In the Philippines, malaria is endemic in 58 out of 80 provinces with nearly 13 percent of the population at high risk, the WHO said. However, incidents of the disease in the country continue to decline with the Department of Health declaring 60 provinces malaria-free in April this year.

Mosquirix, the vaccine developed in Africa by African scientists, is the first and to date the only vaccine that has demonstrated capacity to significantly reduce malaria in young African children, the WHO said.

 

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