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

The World Health Organization, WHO, has endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills

On tonight's show we talk to WHO's Global Malaria Programme, as the organisation has just recommended malaria vaccine rollout for children. It is a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds…

A randomised trial has found a seasonal vaccination and preventative drug combination lowers child hospitalisations and deaths from malaria by approximately 70%.

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Share A lab worker holds up blood smears that will be examined for malaria parasites under a microscope at the Yunnan Institute for Parasitic Diseases in April 2019. World Health Organization/C. McNab It’s official: China has eliminated malaria Jun. 29, 2021 , 8:01 PM The World Health Organization (WHO) today is certifying China as free of malaria, after a decadeslong effort drove an estimated annual toll of 30 million cases in the 1940s, including 300,000 deaths, to zero in 2017. Alo...

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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 12 May 2021 The Chief Executive Officer, FYODOR Biotechnologies, Dr Eddy Agbo, has stressed the need for the fight against malaria to be given the same level of intervention given to coronavirus in order to avert avoidable deaths in Nigeria. Agbo stated this while delivering a keynote address during a colliquium organised by the Centre for Malaria Research, Diagnosis, Training and Policy, University of Lagos with the theme, ‘Reaching the Zero Malaria Target...

Views: Visits 10 By Chioma Obinna As the world battle with the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and other stakeholders in the campaign to eliminate malaria are calling for appropriate funding for malaria as it was done for COVID to avert what they described as ‘unacceptable’ deaths from the disease. According to them, the latest report from the World Health Organisation, WHO showed that an estimated 90,000 Nigerians died of malaria in 2020 and if nothing urgent is done, the death...