Since last April, about 275 000 children have received their first dose of the malaria vaccine in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi through the pilot implementation programme.
Today, as countries battle the threat of COVID-19, World Malaria Day and African Immunization Week offer opportunities to highlight essential malaria and immunization services and the healthcare heroes who deliver them.
- Lusitana and the world’s first malaria vaccine
- Malaria vaccine “first babies”
- Malaria and immunization heroes