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Malaria: Children in Ivory Coast receive first doses of new malaria vaccine, hailed as major milestone

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The Ivory coast shots follow the first vaccine in the Cameroon

 Also see : https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/second-malaria-vaccine-launched-ivory-coast-new-milestone-2024-07-15/

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The introduction of the World Health Organization (WHO)-approved R21 vaccine comes six months after the first malaria vaccine, called RTS,S and developed by British drugmaker GSK (GSK.L) , opens new tab, began being administered in a routine programme in Cameroon.

Some 15 African countries plan to introduce one of the two malaria vaccines this year with support from the Gavi global vaccine alliance.
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