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More than 650,000 children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi have received the malaria vaccine in the past two years since its launch, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday ahead of World Malaria Day to be marked on April 25.
Kate O’Brien, WHO director of the Department of Immunisation, Vaccines, and Biologicals said the three African countries had established robust infrastructure to ensure that children were inoculated against the tropical disease.
“Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi show that existing childhood vaccination platforms can effectively deliver the malaria vaccine to children, some of whom have not been able to access insecticide-treated bed net or other malaria prevention measures,” she said in a statement issued in Nairobi.
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More than 650,000 children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi have received the malaria vaccine in the past two years since its launch, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday ahead of World Malaria Day to be marked on April 25.
Kate O’Brien, WHO director of the Department of Immunisation, Vaccines, and Biologicals said the three African countries had established robust infrastructure to ensure that children were inoculated against the tropical disease.
“Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi show that existing childhood vaccination platforms can effectively deliver the malaria vaccine to children, some of whom have not been able to access insecticide-treated bed net or other malaria prevention measures,” she said in a statement issued in Nairobi.
Over 1.7 million doses of malaria vaccine administered in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi
At a time when global progress in malaria control has stalled, the protection provided by the RTS,S malaria vaccine, when added to currently recommended malaria control interventions, has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives per year.WHO | Geneva | Updated: 21-04-2021 11:23 IST | Created: 21-04-2021 11:23 IST
“Over the last 2 decades, we have achieved remarkable results with existing malaria control tools, averting more than 7 million deaths and 1.5 billion cases of the disease,” says Dr Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme. Image Credit: Twitter(@WHO)