The World Health Organisation ( WHO) has” recommended the broad use of the World’s first malaria vaccine.”
The Direction General of the Agency, Tedros Ghebreyesus stated this on Wednesday.
He said the decision came after reviewing evidence of a pilot programme deployed since 2019 in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in which more than two million doses of the vaccines first made in 1987 by the pharmaceutical company GSK were given.
The WHO said it was recommending that children in Sub Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high malaria transmission get four doses of the vaccine up to the age of two
According to WHO (2019) report, more than half of malaria deaths worldwide are in Sub Saharan Africa with Nigeria accounting for almost a quarter.
