Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine from Oxford University, with children under the age of three years old in line to benefit.
The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 600 000 people each year, most of them children in Africa, and scientists have been trying for years to develop vaccines.Childhood vaccines in Africa are typically paid for by international organisations such as Gavi and UNICEF after they have been backed by the World Health Organisation , which is still assessing the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness.
It was unusual that a regulatory authority in Africa had reviewed the data quicker than the WHO, he added. GSK has committed to produce up to 15 million doses of Mosquirix every year through 2028, well under the roughly 100 million doses a year of the four-dose vaccine the WHO says is needed long-term to cover around 25 million children.
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