Mosquito bites cause malaria. Photo: Online
Malaria mosquito-borne diseases kill more than four million people worldwide each year. However, there was no vaccine to prevent this disease for so long. Finally, a vaccine has become a beacon of hope. The World Health Organization (WHO) approved a malaria vaccine on Wednesday.
The WHO's decision was based on the results of a pilot program conducted in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi since 2019. As part of the program, more than 2 million doses of malaria vaccine have been administered in the three African countries. The vaccine was first invented in 1978 by GSK, a British pharmaceutical company.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gebreasus said his organization had decided to recommend the world's first malaria vaccine on a large scale after analyzing the results of vaccination as part of a pilot program in the three African countries.
From now on, the sub-Saharan region of Africa and the high prevalence of malaria, the vaccine can be applied to children in all parts of the world. This four-dose vaccine can be given from the age of two.