Nigeria rolls out malaria vaccinations to young children

Nigeria has begun implementing a malaria vaccination programme in an effort to ease the world’s highest burden of the mosquito-borne disease which last year killed some 200,000 people.

The vaccination schedule targets young children, with the first dose administered at five months.

One of the first areas where the programme is being rolled out is the southern state of Bayelsa, which has one of the country’s highest rates of malaria.

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