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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

_____Uganda will on February 7 receive its first batch of R21/Matrix-M, a malaria vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for children.Dr Jane Nabakooza, a senior medical ...

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 ...

Ghana is the first country to approve the vaccine, known as R21/Matrix-M. Every year, malaria kills hundreds of thousands of children.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes.

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 ...

Global vaccine alliance GAVI said on Wednesday 12 countries in Africa would receive 18 million doses of malaria vaccine over the next two years, expanding access to the shots to nine new countries ...

WHO also noted that the RTS,S vaccine will be rolled out in some African countries in early 2024, and the R21 malaria vaccine is expected to become available to countries in mid-2024.