The final results of a landmark study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases confirm that the benefits of combining the RTS,S/AS01E (RTS,S) malaria vaccine with antimalarial drugs in settings of highly seasonal malaria transmission continue over five years. The vaccine-drug combination reduced clinical malaria episodes, including cases of severe malaria, and deaths from malaria in young children by nearly two-thirds compared with either RTS,S vaccination or seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) alone.
Dramatic reductions in malaria cases and deaths continue over five years with seasonal malaria vaccine-drug combination
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Malaria Cases, Deaths Plummet with Seasonal Vaccine-Drug Mix
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