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Malaria vaccine rolled out in Cameroon; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Children, Featured, infectious diseases, Malaria, News, Newsletter, Paludisme, pan-Africa / Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi After a 60-year quest, childhood malaria vaccinations were administered to infants and toddlers in Cameroon on 22 January, the world’s first routine immunization against the disease. Remarkably, the RTS,S or Mosquirix, made by GlaxoSmithKline and approved for general use in 2021 […]

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Malaria vaccine resulted in 13% drop in deaths; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Children, Featured, infectious diseases, Malaria, News, Newsletter, Non Communicable Diseases, Paludisme, pan-Africa, sars-cov-2 / Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi In a major analysis in Africa, the first vaccine approved to fight malaria cut deaths among young children by 13% over nearly 4 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported last week. Data from a pilot rollout of the vaccine, called

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