‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 African countries | Malaria | The Guardian An initial 18m doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine have been assigned to the countries where the risk of children falling ill and dying from malaria is highest, according to a statement from the global vaccine alliance Gavi, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef. “This vaccine has the potential to be very impactful in the fight against malaria, and when broadly deployed alongside other interventions, it can prevent tens of thousands of deaths every year,” said Thabani Maphosa, the managing director of country programmes delivery at Gavi. this is an amazing advance against one of mankind's oldest and most deadly diseases. as our climate continues to warm, the anopheles will continue to migrate north making this vaccine necessary in europe and the usa as well.
