World's first malaria vaccine making inroads in western Kenya

Thursday, February 03, 2022 - 3 min read

A pilot programme has been rolling out the groundbreaking vaccine -- which was 30 years in the making -- in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi. PHOTO | AFP

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More than 100,000 children in malaria-endemic western Kenya have received the new vaccine against the disease, which kills 260,000 children under five every year in sub-Saharan Africa.