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High efficacy malaria vaccine - Africa

July 19 , 2024 4 hrs 0 min 41 0
  • The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, co-developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and the University of Oxford, has been launched in Côte d'Ivoire.
  • Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa became the first country to begin administering this vaccine.
  • The number of malaria-related deaths has fallen from 3,222 in 2017 to 1,316 in 2020 in Cote d'Ivoire.

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