Burkina Faso, Niger, Sierra Leone, Liberia also to receive doses of revolutionary new vaccine in coming months. As the clock ticked toward midnight on the night of Nov. 21 in Yaoundé, Cameroon ...

The U.S. Army started work on a malaria vaccine back in the 1980s, hoping to protect soldiers deployed to the tropics. It teamed up with the drug company GlaxoSmithKline, and together they ...

The Central African Republic is the first country to receive thousands of doses of a new malaria vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization last October.

The results of a clinical trial into a new malaria vaccine candidate (RH5.1/Matrix-MTM) show it is well-tolerated and offers effective protection against the blood-stage of the disease—the first ...

Children in Ivory Coast received the first doses of a new, relatively cheap malaria vaccine on Monday, a step that has been hailed as a key moment in the battle against one of the world’s most ...

Two new vaccines may finally turn back an ancient plague. But in unexpected ways, their arrival also complicates the path to ending the disease. A child receiving the second of four malaria ...

Civil Society on Malaria Control, Immunisation and Nutrition (ACOMIN) Niger State has launched a free malaria test and treatment initiative for hundreds of community members in Minna, the Niger ...

Key takeaways: Doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine will be delivered to 12 African countries in late 2023. At least 28 countries in Africa have expressed interest in the vaccine.

The vaccine is technically ChAd63-MVA RH5, but generally called the RH5 vaccine. It exclusively targets RH5, a protein that Plasmodium falciparum (malaria parasite) employs to penetrate human red ...

BERLIN, Dec 23 (Reuters) - BioNTech (22UAy.DE), opens new tab on Friday initiated an early-stage study to evaluate its experimental malaria vaccine in humans, the German drugmaker said. The Phase ...

Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Across Africa, it kills nearly half a million children younger than 5 each year. A new vaccine, only the second of its kind, holds the promise ...

The World Health Organization reported an estimated 619,000 deaths in 2021 from malaria, which disproportionately affects children under 5 in Africa.