WHO Selects Three African Countries To Test First Ever Malaria Vaccine

Three African countries have been selected by WHO to test pilot project in saving the world from malaria.

Small children between the age group of 5 and 17 months in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi will be vaccinated four doses a year in 2018.

If believed to the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the new vaccine is partially effective and has the potentiality in saving lives from the disease.

Moeti added the real challenge now is whether the countries will be able to deliver all the doses of the vaccine to every child.

Malaria is one of the most stubborn health challenges for WHO on the global platform and every year it infects over 200 million people and kills about a half a million of them.

It is also learned most of the infected and death occurs from Africa where insecticides and bed netting are the only measures used as protection.

In 2015 about 90 percent of the malaria cases occurred from the Sub-Saharan Africa.

The disease is spread when an infected person is bitten by a mosquito and again it bites another person.

WHO writes in a released press statement more than 120,000 children from each of the three chosen countries will be receiving the malaria vaccine next year.