New York, April 24 -- A new vaccine against deadly malaria which has been 30 years in development, was made available for the first time to infants in Malawi on Tuesday, marking an innovation milestone, said the World Health Organization (WHO).
The disease remains on the of the worlds leading killers, with one child dying every two minutes. Most of the fatalities are in Africa, where more than 250,000 children die each year. Known officially as the RTS,S, vaccine, it will also be introduced in Ghana and Kenya in the coming weeks. We have seen tremendous gains from bed nets and other measures to control malaria, but progress has stalled and even reversed in some areas, said WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus. We need new soluti...