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WHO Approves First Malaria Vaccine After 30 Years Of Development

https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-gets-who-backing-for-sub-saharan-africa-11633535575

More than three decades after scientists at GlaxoSmithKline started
developing it, a malaria vaccine was finally approved Wednesday by the
WHO. The vaccine could help save the lives of 400,000 people who still
succumb to malaria every year (more than 50% are children under 5),
most in sub-Saharan Africa. The vaccine is formulated for inoculating
young children as well as adults.

Per WSJ, the WHO's endorsement is a critical step for enabling
production and the rollout of the jab, which unfortunately could take
years to come into wide use across the continent of Africa.

The malaria jab will be administered in four doses. It has already
been used to inoculate more than 800K children in Ghana, Kenya and
Malawi as part of a long-running pilot program.

In a press release announcing its approval, the WHO said the jab
offers "a glimmer of hope" for the Continent's most vulnerable
children and others.

    "Today’s recommendation offers a glimmer of hope for the continent
which shoulders the heaviest burden of the disease and we expect many
more African children to be protected from malaria and grow into
healthy adults," said WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso
Moeti in the release.

Notably, the vaccine - called TS,S or Mosquirix - is the first jab to
ever be deployed against a parasitic disease. The jab was designed to
work against Plasmodium falciparum, the most common malaria parasite
in Africa, and the deadliest.

    “This is a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for
children is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria
control,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the
press release.

But before anybody gets too excited, WSJ points out that the vaccine
was only shown to reduce severe malaria cases by 30%. Because of this,
and the difficulty of distribution, it could take years to see how
effective the vaccine is in the real world.

While it typically doesn't overwhelm hospitals, malaria has been
steadily killing people by the hundreds of thousands for years.

Yet its development and approval wasn't considered an emergency?