The world's first malaria vaccine - 24th April 2023
The RTS,S vaccine is the first malaria vaccine. It's saving children's lives around the world.
In Kenya, the vaccine's working well. There are fewer malaria cases. Fewer people are dying from malaria.
GlaxoSmithKline is a drug company. It made the vaccine. The World Health Organisation (WHO) agreed to the vaccine in 2021.
Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi started using it. One million children received the vaccine. Kenya gave the vaccine to 400,000 children.
In 2021, 247 million people caught malaria. The disease killed 619,000 people. 96 percent of these deaths were in Africa.
In Kenya, malaria's the number one health problem. But the vaccine's changing this. 9 countries in the world have stopped malaria.
Algeria and Sri Lanka had zero cases for three years. By 2030, the WHO wants this for 35 other countries. Kenya wants to be one of them.
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