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'LONDON — Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced this week a "significant
step" in the fight against Malaria as the East African nation expands its use
of the world’s first-ever malaria vaccine.
The malaria vaccine — known as Mosquirix or RTS,s/AS01 — has seen a phased
introduction in the country since a 2019 pilot program was launched. Since
then, over a million doses of the vaccine have been administered to children
across eight of Kenya’s counties, 400,000 of which have received at least one
dose of the vaccine.
Starting March 7, 2023, Kenya’s Health Ministry has announced it is scaling up
use of the ground-breaking vaccine, extending to an additional 25 sub-counties
in lake-endemic regions. The vaccine will be expanded — free-of-charge — to
an additional 133,000 infants in lake-endemic counties and will be available at
all immunizing health facilities.'
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
