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| Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone began mass rollouts of a WHO-approved malaria vaccine on Wednesday, becoming the latest African countries to join the recently introduced routine malaria vaccine programme. | |
| The RTS,S vaccine will be administered to children aged five months or older in four scheduled doses. | |
| Benin received 215,900 doses of the vaccine, while Liberia received 112,000 doses and Sierra Leone 550,000 doses. | |
| The WHO, Unicef and the global vaccine alliance (Gavi), which are coordinating the programme, said in a joint statement that the rollout was "a significant step forward for malaria prevention in Africa", which is the hardest hit by malaria. | |
| In 2022, 94% of all malaria cases and 95% of global malaria deaths happened in Africa, according to WHO. | |
| The vaccine has already been successfully rolled out in Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, after pilots in three of those countries caused a 13% drop in deaths of children of eligible age. | |
| Several more African countries are expected to join the rollout of the RTS,S vaccine in the coming months, amid an anticipated rollout of the second WHO-approved jab - R21. | |
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