Health: WHO backs worldwide malaria vaccine rollout – Gulf Digital News
- Date: 07-Oct-2021
- Source: Gulf Daily News
- Sector:Technology
- Country:Gulf
Health: WHO backs worldwide malaria vaccine rollout – Gulf Digital News
NAIROBI: The first vaccine against malaria could be rolled out to billions of people after key advisers to the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave it the green light.
Experts on the WHO’s advisory bodies for immunisation and malaria concluded the vaccine Mosquirix – a vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline – could save tens of thousands of lives every year.
WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he had started his career as a malaria researcher and had “longed for the day that we would have an effective vaccine against this ancient and terrible disease”.
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