At least 28 countries on the continent expressed interest in receiving the Mosquirix malaria serum, World Health Organization says
The world’s first malaria vaccine will soon be rolled out in Africa, with twelve countries across the continent expected to receive 18 million doses over the next two years, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday, along with other agencies.
Mosquirix (RTS,S/AS01) shots have already been used in pilot programmes in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, and has been administered to more than 1.7 million children since 2019, the WHO, the Global Vaccine Alliance GAVI, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a joint statement.
Nine more countries –Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Uganda – will soon receive the vaccine for the first time.
“At least 28 African countries have expressed interest in receiving the malaria…