Malaria vaccine shows over 50% efficacy in adults following controlled human malaria infection, supporting further trials in children.

DESIRE DANGA ESSIGUE / Desire Danga Essigue/Reuters The rollout of malaria vaccines in Africa — the world’s first routine immunization program against this mosquito-borne disease — has raised ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Ghana on Thursday became the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine for young children, one that officials hope will offer better protection against the disease that kills ...

Just two years after the World Health Organization’s historic recommendation of the first malaria vaccine, the global health agency on Monday recommended a second, seeking to broaden access to a tool ...

The vaccine has led to a reduction in severe malaria and child hospitalizations. LONDON -- Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced this week a "significant step" in the fight against Malaria as the ...

The Central African Republic is the first country to receive thousands of doses of a new malaria vaccine first recommended by the World Health Organization last October. A total of 43,000 doses ...

The World Health Organization has recommended the use of a malaria vaccine called Matrix-M, which is anticipated to boost the vaccine supply. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Johannesburg — It seems hard to believe that Africa's biggest killer is a tiny insect, but almost every minute, an African child dies with malaria. The continent bears the brunt of the mosquito-borne ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature Reviews Microbiology reviewed malaria vaccines and their successes and failures. Nearly half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria, with ...

Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Across Africa, it kills nearly half a million children younger than 5 each year. A new vaccine, only the second of its kind, holds the promise of ...

The World Health Organization announced Monday it was recommending a second malaria vaccine, specifically designed to prevent the illness in children, just two years after it recommended the first ...