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A new report from the World Health Organization contains some encouraging numbers but also cause for concern, with both cases and deaths on the upswing last year. The pandemic is just one reason.

A ground-breaking vaccine against malaria has stoked hopes in Africa of rolling back a disease that claims hundreds of thousands of lives a year, many of them youngsters.

A ground-breaking vaccine against malaria has stoked hopes in Africa of rolling back a disease that claims hundreds of thousands of lives a year, many of them youngsters

Malaria is estimated to be responsible for an average annual reduction of 1.3 percent in Africa’s economic growth.

Every two minutes, a child dies of malaria, the agency said

On 30 September, the EU Malaria Fund (EUMF) concluded its investment activities at a high-level online event by finalizing its investments into four innovative companies active in malaria R&D. The EUMF

The decision followed a review of a pilot programme deployed since 2019 in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi where more than two million doses were given of the vaccine, first made by the pharmaceutical com...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it is recommending "widespread use" of a malaria vaccine for children ...

In a historic development, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday that it is endorsing the widespread use of the first-ever Malaria vaccine.

"This is a historic moment," said WHO chief.