Kenya becomes 3rd country to roll out malaria vaccine | World News, The Indian Express

Kenya becomes 3rd country to roll out malaria vaccine | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |Kampala (uganda) |Published: September 13, 2019 3:59:30 pm

Kenya becomes 3rd country to roll out malaria vaccine

Kenya became the third African country to introduce the vaccine, after Malawi and Ghana. The aim is to reach about 360,000 children per year across the three countries.

The parasitic disease kills about 435,000 people every year, most of them children under 5 in Africa. (Source: File Photo)

Health authorities in Kenya on Friday started administering doses of the world’s only licensed malaria vaccine to young children in rural areas facing high transmission rates.