A new malaria vaccine is the first to offer "effective protection" against the blood-stage of the disease, a University of Oxford trial has found. The results of the clinical trial into the ...

Nigeria has become the latest African country to start administering malaria vaccines as the vector-borne disease sweeps the nation. The most populated country in Africa, Nigeria has become the 17th ...

So when Nigeria started offering a malaria vaccine, she was eager to protect her youngest child. She took the 6-month-old baby to get his first shot at a health center in hard-hit Bayelsa state ...

Ominike Marvis eagerly embraced Nigeria's new malaria vaccine to protect her son. The vaccine, developed by Oxford University, aims to curb malaria in Africa, which bears the highest global burden.

Asked whether this won’t interfere with the government’s free jabs arrangement, he said Kampala where Norvik’s clients are is not one of the areas where the free vaccines will be deployed. As Uganda ...

The WHO is insisting that "progress must be accelerated". The WHO has pointed to the wider rollout of malaria vaccines as a promising development, expected to save tens of thousands of young lives ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A woman waits for her child to be administered the malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M at the comprehensive Health ...

BAYELSA, Nigeria (AP) — Ominike Marvis has lost count of the number of times her 6-year-old son has had malaria. So when Nigeria started offering a malaria vaccine, she was eager to protect her ...

Nigeria is the latest African country to give a new malaria vaccine to young childen BAYELSA, Nigeria -- Ominike Marvis has lost count of the number of times her 6-year-old son has had malaria.