Who Charges Countries To Use New Tools To Stave Off Malaria And Save Lives - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 26, 2023
WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus made the appeal in his message to mark the World Malaria Day, is celebrated annually on April 25.
The agency’s latest World Malaria Report, published in December 2022, showed that there was an estimated 247 million new cases of malaria in 2021.
It showed that nearly 1.5 million children at high risk of illness, and death from malaria. It also stated that Ghana, Kenya and Malawi had received the first dose of the first-ever malaria vaccine. The vaccine is part of an on-going WHO-coordinated pilot programme.
The global health body said the malaria vaccine pilots, launched in 2019, are increasing equity in access to prevention tools for the most vulnerable and they are already saving lives.