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Aim is to reduce malaria prevalence in high-risk counties of Mombasa, Kwale, Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Tana River and Lamu.

A milestone in health care, Cameroon, Africa, will be the first country to routinely distribute a new malaria vaccine to children. Click to read more.

Researchers have tested a new combination of medications that could thwart resistance to common malaria drugs, significantly reducing the infection risk in pregnant women living with HIV.

Project involves Kenya, US Malaria Initiative and the Global Fund in prone regions.

UW collaborated on a recent study published Jan. 4 in The Lancet Microbe that focused on tracking spreads of asymptomatic malaria in Katawki District, Uganda.

Around 40 years in the making, the World Health Organization (WHO)-approved RTS,S vaccine developed by British drugmaker GSK is meant to work alongside existing tools such as bed nets to combat malaria, which in Africa kills nearly half a million children under the age of five each year.

The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 600,000 people a year, mainly in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. Children under five years old account for more than 80 percent of deaths on the continent. Following a pilot phase, the RTS,S vaccine is being rolled out at scale across Africa, starting in Cameroon. At a hospital in the town of Soa, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the capital Yaounde, six-month-old Noah Ngah became the first to receive the injection at the facility.

Cameroon marked a significant step in the global battle against malaria on Monday by initiating the world's first routine vaccine program for the...

History is made in Cameroon as the first doses of a malaria vaccine are rolled out in a widespread, international mass-vaccination effort.

It becomes the first nation in the world to roll out a universal anti-malaria jab for infants.