The new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, is expected to help meet high demand in Africa
Parents and babies await checkups at Kilifi County Hospital in Kenya. The city was one site for the phase 3 clinical trial of the R21 malaria vaccine.The World Health Organization today recommended widespread use of a second vaccine against malaria, a disease that kills more than half a million children each year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. The new vaccine, called R21/Matrix-M, follows in the footsteps of the first malaria vaccine, called Mosquirix or RTS,S, for which WHO.
. At a meeting last week, SAGE considered the latest encouraging data from a phase 3 trial of R21 involving 4800 children, which“we have every indication that they will be very similar,” Dyann Wirth, chair of WHO ’Brien told the press conference. The estimated price per dose of between $2 and $4 for R21 means it may cost less than half as much as RTS,S, at least at first. The price difference won’t affect countries that receive vaccines from Gavi or UNICEF, O’Brien says, but could be relevant for some middle-income countries that purchase some of their own vaccines.
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