A five-year look into how a malaria vaccine changed Ghana
by editors@theworld.org (Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman) from The World: Latest Stories on (#7981T)
For decades, malaria has claimed children's lives and haunted mothers across Africa. Developing a vaccine was a formidable scientific challenge, in part because the parasite that causes the disease is complex. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended widespread use of the RTS,S malaria vaccine in October 2021. Five years on in Ghana - one of the first countries to pilot the malaria vaccine - the program is actually saving children's lives. From Ghana, Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman has the story.