WHO endorses use of world's first malaria vaccine in Africa

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

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The World Health Organization has recommended the widespread rollout of the first malaria vaccine, in a move experts hope could save tens of thousands of children’s lives each year across Africa.

 

Hailing “an historic day”, the WHO’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that after a successful pilot programme in three African countries the RTS,S vaccine should be made available more widely.

 

“I started my career as a malaria researcher, and I longed for the day that we would have an effective vaccine against this ancient and terrible disease. And today is that day, an historic day. Today, the WHO is recommending the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine,” Tedros said at a press conference in Geneva.

 

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.

 

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Isn't this a four dose vaccine? That would be tough to administer from what I gather

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Isn't this a four dose vaccine? That would be tough to administer from what I gather

 

Yes, that's the major drawback with this vaccine.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

20 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Isn't this a four dose vaccine? That would be tough to administer from what I gather

 

Also, the vaccine's overall efficacy is around 30% to 40%.  

 

It's definitely not the vaccine that will "end" malaria, but it's a start!

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

Alright, I give; who endorses it?

[ort]

I'll do my own research.