NEW: WHO recommends that the world's first malaria vaccine should be given to children across Africa.
vaccine should be given to children across Africa, in a move officials hope will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease.health agency's vaccine advisory group, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke of"a historic moment."
The WHO said its decision was based on results from ongoing research in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi that has tracked more than 800,000 children since 2019.in 1987. While it's the first to be authorized, it is only about 30% effective, requires up to four doses, and protection fades after just months. "This is a huge step forward," said Julian Rayner, director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, who was not part of the WHO decision."It's an imperfect vaccine, but it will still stop hundreds of thousands of children from dying." Rayner said that the vaccine's impact on the spread of the mosquito-borne disease was still unclear, but pointed to the coronavirus vaccines as an encouraging example.
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