UNICEF marks World Malaria Day with rollout of new vaccine in Mali

The United Nations children’s organization UNICEF is launching today’s World Malaria Day with the rollout of the R21/Matrix-M vaccine in Mali, the 20th country to introduce it.

This was the launch of the first malaria vaccine in Malawi back in April 2019.It was a pilot study backed by UNICEF and GAVI, the vaccine alliance.They say symptomatic malaria cases were reduced by 75% during the 12 months following a three dose series of…