#PODCAST WHO-approved malaria vaccine hailed as "life changing" for many parts of Africa #sabcnews

By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called the first roll out of a Malaria vaccine "lifesaving". It will focus on infants in the 42 districts of Cameroon, worst affected by the mosquito borne disease and follow successful pilot campaigns in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi. Around 40 years in the making, the World Health Organization (WHO)-approved RTS, S vaccine developed by British drugmaker GSK is meant to work alongside existing tools such as bed nets to combat malaria, which in Africa kills nearly half a million children under the age of five each year...