WHO Backs Rollout of Malaria Vaccine for African Children WHO Backs Rollout of Malaria Vaccine for African Children
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - October 6, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
WHO Backs Widespread Use Of First Malaria Vaccine
The vaccine was found effective in a pilot program involving thousands of children across three countries. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 6, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kimberlee Speakman, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news Source Type: news
WHO endorses ‘historic’ malaria vaccine for at-risk children
The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine, in what the UN health agency’s chief described on Wednesday as “an historic day” for the decades-long battle against the deadly disease. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - October 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
WHO endorses'historic' malaria vaccine for at-risk children
The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine, in what the UN health agency’s chief described on Wednesday as “an historic day” for the decades-long battle against the deadly disease. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - October 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
WHO endorses use of world ’s first malaria vaccine in Africa
World Health Organization ’s director general hails ‘historic day’ in fight against parasitic diseaseThe World Health Organization has recommended the widespread rollout of the first malaria vaccine, in a move experts hope could save tens of thousands of children ’s lives each year across Africa.Hailing “an historic day”, the WHO’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that after a successful pilot programme in three African countries the RTS,S vaccine should be made available more widely.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 6, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Lizzy Davies Tags: Global development Malaria Global health World news Society World Health Organization Africa Medical research Science GlaxoSmithKline Business Pharmaceuticals industry Children's health Source Type: news
Africa: Who Recommends Groundbreaking Malaria Vaccine for Children At Risk
[WHO] The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission. The recommendation is based on results from an ongoing pilot programme in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi that has reached more than 800 000 children since 2019. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 6, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
WHO backs widespread use of malaria vaccine in children
GlaxoSmithKline jab recommended for use in Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions at risk (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - October 6, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
WHO backs deployment of first malaria vaccine for children
GlaxoSmithKline jab recommended for use in Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions at risk (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - October 6, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
WHO recommends use of first proven malaria vaccine
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the vaccine could save tens of thousands of lives each year. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - October 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Malaria symptoms: Five of the most common signs of malaria after vaccine breakthrough
The World Health Organisation has approved a malaria vaccine that could soon be rolled out to millions. This landmark vaccine could save millions of lives, particularly for children who live in African countries. But what are the common symptoms of malaria? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - October 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
First approved vaccine against malaria to be rolled out - 'powerful new tool' says WHO
FIRST ever malaria vaccine to be rolled out across Africa to shield children from malaria. The World Health Organization dubbed it a historic breakthrough in the fight against the deadly disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - October 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
First Malaria Vaccine Approved by W.H.O.
Malaria kills about 500,000 people each year, about half of them children in Africa. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Vaccination and Immunization Malaria Preventive Medicine Parasites GlaxoSmithKline PLC Africa Disease Rates Deaths (Fatalities) Children and Childhood World Health Organization Mosquirix Source Type: news
Historic go-ahead for malaria vaccine to protect African children
After years of trials, the vaccine has shown potential to save tens of thousands of children's lives. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - October 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
GSK welcomes WHO recommendation for broad roll-out of its RTS,S/AS01e (RTS,S) malaria vaccine
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc welcomes and applauds the WHO recommendation for the broader deployment of GSK's RTS,S malaria vaccine to reduce childhood illness and deaths from malaria in children living in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with moderate to high transmission as defined by WHO. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - October 6, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured GlaxoSmithKline Business and Industry Source Type: news
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