insert_link Africa Two new malaria vaccines are being rolled out across Africa: how they work and what they promise By Jaishree Raman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases Malaria incidents are on the rise. There were 249 million cases of this parasitic disease in 2022, five million more than in 2021. Africa suffers more than any other region from malaria, with 94% of cases and 95% of deaths worldwide. This year two revolutionary malaria vaccines are being rolled out across the continent. Nadine Dreyer asks Jaishree Raman […] todayApril 23, 2024 14
insert_link Africa WHO says the arrival of malaria vaccines in Africa are a ‘breakthrough moment’ More than 330,000 doses of the World Health Organisation-recommended RTS,S malaria vaccine have arrived in Cameroon – a historic step towards broader vaccination against one of the deadliest diseases for African children. Dominika Mortimer reports on the development. todayNovember 23, 2023 1
insert_link Africa Malaria: two groundbreaking vaccines have been developed, but access and rollout are still big stumbling blocks By Rose Leke, Université de Yaounde 1 The approval of two malaria vaccines – the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM vaccine in 2023 – will help control, and eventually help eradicate, a disease that causes more than 600,000 deaths annually. Nearly 2 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been vaccinated with the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine. It will be rolled out to more African countries from early next year. […] todayNovember 23, 2023 3
insert_link Oshiwambo Cameroon ayakula omuti mupe wokutunila omukifi woMalaria Epangelo laCameroon okwa lopotwa layakula omuti upe woMalaria wokutunila ufike pomata edulife po 330,000 ngaashi uli wadiminwa oku longifwa kehangano louhaku mounyuni (WHO). Oo eli ominsiter yonghalo nawa noudjolowele moshilongo osho, Manaouda Malachie okwati eyakulo lomuti wokutunila omukifi woMalaria oshili efindano lakula mondjokonona yoshilongo. Oshilogo Kenya, Ghana na Malawi yoo ota kulopotwa ya hovela nale netunilo lomuti woMalaria wo RTS,S oo watalika hauyandjwa momata opane. Moule woivike ishona oyo twa […] todayNovember 23, 2023 6
Paying it forward: Kenyan coastal doctor Bashrahil Mohammed Mafudh has made it his life’s work to care for the most vulnerable in his community, at no cost.
