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WHO says funds secured for Africa pilots of world's first malaria vaccine
A mother and her baby sleep under a mosquito net. Malaria infects around 200 million people a year worldwide and killed an estimated 440,000 in 2015. PHOTO | FILE
Funding for phase one of pilot deployments of the world's first malaria vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa has been secured and immunisation campaigns will begin in 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
The vaccine, known as RTS,S or Mosquirix and developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, is only partially effective and needs to be given in a four-dose schedule, but is the first approved shot against the mosquito-borne disease.
