WHO Recommends Groundbreaking Malaria Vaccine
★Handout file photo dated October 19, 2011 of GSK pulse staff working at the gsk sponsored kombewa malaria clinical trial site in western Kenya. The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission The RTS,S vaccine, also known as Mosquirix, was developed by the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and has been administered to more than 800,000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi since the pilot programme began in 2019. This is a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for children is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control, said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Using this vaccine on top of existing tools to prevent malaria could save tens of thousands of
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