The world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S pilot programme was launched in Malawi on Tuesday.

This makes Malawi the first of three countries in Africa in which the RTS,S vaccine will be made available to children up to two years of age.

RTS,S is a scientific name given to the malaria vaccine and represents its composition; the ‘R’ stands for the central repeat region of Plasmodium (P.) falciparum‘circumsporozoite protein (CSP); ‘T’ for the T-cell epitopes of the CSP;and the‘S’ for hepatitis B surface antigen(HBsAg).

The other two African countries, Ghana and Kenya, will introduce the vaccine in the coming weeks.

Malaria remains one of the world’s leading killers, claiming the life of one child every two minutes, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Most of the deaths are in Africa, where over 250 000 children die from the disease every year.

Children under five are at greatest risk of its life-threatening complications. Worldwide, malaria kills 435 000 people a year, most of them children.

According to WHO, the vaccine, RTS, S is an innovation milestone of three decades in development

“Thirty years in the making, RTS,S is the first and to date the only, vaccine that has demonstrated it can significantly reduce malaria in children.

“In clinical trials, the vaccine was found to prevent approximately four in 10 malaria cases, including three in 10 cases of life-threatening severe malaria,’’ a WHO statement said.

Also, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, said: “Malaria is a constant threat in the African communities where this vaccine will be given.

“ The poorest children suffer the most and are at highest risk of death.

“We know the power of vaccines to prevent killer diseases and reach children, including those who may not have immediate access to the doctors, nurses and health facilities they need to save them when severe illness comes.

“This is a day to celebrate as we begin to learn more about what this tool can do to change the trajectory of malaria through childhood vaccination,” Moeti said.

According to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s Director-General: “We have seen tremendous gains from bed nets and other measures to control malaria in the last 15 years but progress has stalled and even reversed in some areas.

“We need new solutions to get the malaria response back on track and this vaccine gives us a promising tool to get there.

“The malaria vaccine has the potential to save tens of thousands of children’s lives,’’ Ghebreyesus said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the pilot programme is designed to generate evidence and experience to inform WHO policy recommendations on the broader use of the RTS,S malaria vaccine.

It will look at reductions in child deaths, vaccine uptake, including whether parents bring their children on time for the four required doses and vaccine safety in the context of routine use.

The vaccine is a complementary malaria control tool to be added to the core package of WHO-recommended measures for malaria prevention.

These other measures include the routine use of insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying with insecticides and the timely use of malaria testing and treatment.

Financing for the pilot programme was mobilised through collaboration among three key global health funding bodies, including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Unitaid.

https://dentalgist.ng/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-launched-in-malawi

Very good..
Na so I wake for night see one mosquito they chop dinner for my body.. Me wey no see dinner chop u wan chop me.. We die here..!

hmmmm

So all these years they could make a vaccine?

Pharmaceutical companies allowed millions including children to die in africa, all because they were looking to milk the already improverished african nations of its scarce and little resources.

This is a case of making money off other people’s misfortune, even when that misfortune includes their lives.

Mans inhumanity to man. Disgusting!

chai

Na God Go Save Us... We are absolutely dependent on this white people.. If today they decide to wipe us all or change our DNA, they will succeed... Even the God we serve na their own. The clothes we wear, the language we speak, the medicine we take... Everything na them... The black race eh

Wow!

I pray it succeeds.

Another thing on my mind is why must they test it in Africa?

So African children are now the lab rats to do drug trials in humans?

God please help Africa to become the humans you have made them.

Great news, finally,

Mursz:
So all these years they could make a vaccine?

Why you no make ur own?

How's this different from chloroquine, Arthemetre and the other nonsense drugs?

See what APC has reduced us to

Goodbye to artesunate and co

So na Africans b guinea pigs??

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Dentalgist:


The world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S pilot programme was launched in Malawi on Tuesday.

This makes Malawi the first of three countries in Africa in which the RTS,S vaccine will be made available to children up to two years of age.

RTS,S is a scientific name given to the malaria vaccine and represents its composition; the ‘R’ stands for the central repeat region of Plasmodium (P.) falciparum‘circumsporozoite protein (CSP); ‘T’ for the T-cell epitopes of the CSP;and the‘S’ for hepatitis B surface antigen(HBsAg).

The other two African countries, Ghana and Kenya, will introduce the vaccine in the coming weeks.

Malaria remains one of the world’s leading killers, claiming the life of one child every two minutes, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Most of the deaths are in Africa, where over 250 000 children die from the disease every year.

Children under five are at greatest risk of its life-threatening complications. Worldwide, malaria kills 435 000 people a year, most of them children.

According to WHO, the vaccine, RTS, S is an innovation milestone of three decades in development

“Thirty years in the making, RTS,S is the first and to date the only, vaccine that has demonstrated it can significantly reduce malaria in children.

“In clinical trials, the vaccine was found to prevent approximately four in 10 malaria cases, including three in 10 cases of life-threatening severe malaria,’’ a WHO statement said.

Also, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, said: “Malaria is a constant threat in the African communities where this vaccine will be given.

“ The poorest children suffer the most and are at highest risk of death.

“We know the power of vaccines to prevent killer diseases and reach children, including those who may not have immediate access to the doctors, nurses and health facilities they need to save them when severe illness comes.

“This is a day to celebrate as we begin to learn more about what this tool can do to change the trajectory of malaria through childhood vaccination,” Moeti said.

According to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s Director-General: “We have seen tremendous gains from bed nets and other measures to control malaria in the last 15 years but progress has stalled and even reversed in some areas.

“We need new solutions to get the malaria response back on track and this vaccine gives us a promising tool to get there.

“The malaria vaccine has the potential to save tens of thousands of children’s lives,’’ Ghebreyesus said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the pilot programme is designed to generate evidence and experience to inform WHO policy recommendations on the broader use of the RTS,S malaria vaccine.

It will look at reductions in child deaths, vaccine uptake, including whether parents bring their children on time for the four required doses and vaccine safety in the context of routine use.

The vaccine is a complementary malaria control tool to be added to the core package of WHO-recommended measures for malaria prevention.

These other measures include the routine use of insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying with insecticides and the timely use of malaria testing and treatment.

Financing for the pilot programme was mobilised through collaboration among three key global health funding bodies, including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Unitaid.

https://dentalgist.ng/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-launched-in-malawi

If really they are true at heart Nigeria been one of the country with the highest case should have been in the list

when is it coming to Nigeria?

Why not

In the headquarters of mosquito

I don't like the way they always use African coutries as testing grounds for new medicines.

SaintM90:
How's this different from chloroquine, Arthemetre and the other nonsense drugs?

See what APC has reduced us to

You are a pure thorough bred bombo..

Oyinbo manipulation to exploit, cook root and drink, www.that's all.


Gbo gbo nise, agbo iba

pyrex23:
Very good..
Na so I wake for night see one mosquito they chop dinner for my body.. Me wey no see dinner chop u wan chop me.. We die here..!

Didn't you leave a bowl of water beside you , so the mosquito could wash it's hand after dinner?

sotall:
Wow!

I pray it succeeds.

Another thing on my mind is why must they test it in Africa?

So African children are now the lab rats to do drug trials in humans?

God please help Africa to become the humans you have made them.

So they should test in populations that does not have a Malaria problem?

I wonder if our Universities apart from U.I and Convenant conducts any research?

wman:
I don't like the way they always use African coutries as testing grounds for new medicines.

Which new medicine have they tested in Africa?

Good

daywatcher:


Which new medicine have they tested in Africa?

Several. This has been a source of controversies and featured in documentaries. Lots or disabled children, stillbirth and all that caused by drugs with unknown side effects.

iammo:



I wonder if our Universities apart from U.I and Convenant conducts any research?

Every university conduct research. That is the purpose of your thesis and project. Whether it is scrutinised and place into pratical use is another topic.

Mursz:
So all these years they could make a vaccine?

Pharmaceutical companies allowed millions including children to die in africa, all because they were looking to milk the already improverished african nations of its scarce and little resources.

This is a case of making money off other people’s misfortune, even when that misfortune includes their lives.

Mans inhumanity to man. Disgusting!

I think you're not been fair if you're blaming pharmaceutical industries or any European agency that cared enough to sponsor research with billions of dollar for a disease that affects mostly the African continent, while her leaders prefer to loot resources that could have gone a long way. Bill gates doesn't need to sponsor research on malaria vaccine,because malaria is not a concern in the U.S and he has other avenue to make his money should you decide to bring the issue of ulterior motives,which is strictly business