
First malaria mass vaccine rollout starts
The world's first routine vaccine programme against malaria has started in Cameroon.
Cameroon has begun the rollout of the world's first routine vaccine programme against malaria. The WHO has hailed it as a historic moment in the global fight against the mosquito-borne disease. Our global health correspondent joins to explain how it works, and we hear from those who have contracted malaria many times.
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Presenter: Lukwesa Burak
(Photo: FILE PHOTO: A nurse fills a syringe with malaria vaccine before administering it to an infant at the Lumumba Sub-County hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, July 1, 2022. Credit: Baz Ratner/File Photo/Reuters)
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