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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.