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NEWS: WHO recommends groundbreaking malaria vaccine for children at risk

October 6, 2021 - 17:55 -- Malaria World
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Historic RTS,S/AS01 recommendation can reinvigorate the fight against malaria

6 October 2021 News release Geneva

The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission. The recommendation is based on results from an ongoing pilot programme in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi that has reached more than 800 000 children since 2019.

RTS,S vaccine: an African medical doctor raises the alarm.

February 1, 2020 - 14:57 -- Pierre Lutgen
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This document was submitted to us by Jerôme Munyangi, who run the successful large scale clinical trials against malaria with Artemisia plants in Maniema, RDC.

        (Jerome Munyangi et al., Artemisia annua and Artemisia afra tea infusions vs. artesunate-amodiaquine(ASAQ) in treating Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a large scale, doubleblind, randomized clinical trialPhytomedicine, 2019, 57, 49-56)

Our association IFBV-BELHERB shares his concern for his African sisters and brothers. They should not be used as guinea pigs by Bigpharma.

 

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