12 African countries will benefit from malaria vaccines By 2025, 12 African countries will receive over 18 million doses of the first malari...

12 African countries will benefit from malaria vaccines

By 2025, 12 African countries will receive over 18 million doses of the first malaria vaccine, according to the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, and the Vaccine Alliance.

  In a news conference, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director of the World Health Organisation, stated that "Malaria is one of the most deadly diseases in Africa, the disease kills about half a million children under the age of five every year."

Africa will account for 96% of all malaria deaths worldwide by 2021.

  More than 1.7 million children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi have already received the Mosquirix (RTS,S) vaccine made by British pharmaceutical behemoth GSK.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organisation, stated: "It has been proven to be safe and effective, and this has helped reduce child fatalities.

  The doses were requested by over 30 African nations.

According to WHO, UNICEF, and the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), nine additional nations will benefit from the goods in addition to the three that were evaluated and will continue to get vaccines.

  Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Uganda are among the nations.