World’s first malaria vaccine launched in Malawi (Africa): WHO
- World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the world’s first and only malaria vaccine has been launched in the African country of Malawi.
- It has been launched as a pilot program to protect, in particular, hundreds of thousands of children under five against Malaria.
- The name of the vaccine is RTS,S. It is the first, and to date the only, vaccine that has demonstrated it can significantly reduce malaria in children.
Read More at: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/23-04-2019-malaria-vaccine-pilot-launched-in-malawi