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Cameroon is set to become the first country to introduce a new malaria vaccine for children, marking a milestone in the ongoing efforts to combat Malaria. | Health

The rollout is projected to save tens of thousands of children’s lives each year across Africa

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

The global fight against malaria took a stride forward on Monday as Cameroon launched the world's first routine vaccine program against the mosquito-borne disease.

The global fight against malaria took a stride forward on Monday as Cameroon started the world's first routine vaccine programme against the mosquito-borne disease, although Reuters journalists witnessed few people in clinics receiving the shot. 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 c...

The four-dose vaccine, also called Mosquirix, is the first of two WHO-approved malaria vaccines on the market.

On Monday, Cameroon became the first nation to establish routine childhood malaria immunizations. The race is on to give protection to as many people as possible.

Structural insights into a potent antimalarial drug candidate's interaction with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have paved the way for drug-resistant malaria therapies, according to a new study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Van Andel Institute.

Travellers who wish to be safe while travelling in tropical regions should protect themselves against the most dangerous animal on the planet, perhaps after the human: The mosquito. Each year 247 million people worldwide get infected with with malaria, according to the 2022 World Malaria Report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Around 620,000 die, with three-quarters of the number being children under the age of five. Most of the victims are not travellers, but mosquitoes aren't choos...

An innovative antibiotic drug could be the key to preventing malaria transmission among pregnant women living with HIV.