‘Safe and effective’ R21/Matrix-M vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, is the first malaria vaccine to reach target of 75% efficacy
A highly effective malaria vaccine has been recommended for widespread use by the World Health Organization.
“As a malaria researcher, I used to dream of the day we would have a safe and effective vaccine against malaria. Now we have two,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO., are limited. A second WHO-recommended vaccine is expected “to protect more children faster, and to bring us closer to our vision of a malaria-free future,” said Tedros.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO’s regional director for Africa, said: “This second vaccine holds real potential to close the huge demand-and-supply gap. Delivered to scale and rolled out widely, the two vaccines can help bolster malaria prevention and control efforts, and save hundreds of thousands of young lives in Africa from this deadly disease.”
Dr Michael Charles, the chief executive of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, said the announcement was “a step in the right direction” but that there were still “major hurdles to overcome”.
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