{"id":6684,"date":"2024-05-28T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6684"},"modified":"2024-05-28T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:46:58","slug":"new-malaria-vaccine-delivered-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/28\/new-malaria-vaccine-delivered-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"New malaria vaccine delivered for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2024\/05\/24\/g-s1-931\/new-malaria-vaccine-delivered-for-the-first-time\">NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central African Republic is the first country to receive thousands of doses of a new malaria vaccine first recommended by the World Health Organization last October. A total of 43,000 doses arrived by air today from UNICEF, and another 120,000 are scheduled to show up in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vaccine \u2014 called R21\/Matrix-M \u2014 will be used as part of children\u2019s routine immunization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes as welcome news in a country plagued by one of the highest incidences of malaria worldwide; more than 1.7 million cases were reported in 2022. \u201cPrevious concerns about supply meeting demand are firmly behind us,\u201d said Leila Pakkala, director of UNICEF Supply Division, in a statement. \u201cNow our priority is for the vaccines to reach every child at risk.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As a malaria researcher,&#8221; says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, &#8220;I used to dream of the day when we would have a safe and effective vaccine against malaria. Now we have two.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re the first vaccines designed to work against a human parasite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first, called RTS,S, was unveiled more than two-and-a-half years ago. R21\/Matrix-M is intended for children between 5 and 36 months, who are among the most vulnerable to the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A vaccine recruits the human immune system to fight the parasite as soon as it enters the body,&#8221; says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/profile\/dyann-f-wirth\/\">Dyann Wirth<\/a>, chair of the WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Group. &#8220;A vaccinated person is poised to fight off the infection at its earliest stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2024\/05\/24\/g-s1-931\/new-malaria-vaccine-delivered-for-the-first-time\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR The Central African Republic is the first country to receive thousands of doses of a new malaria vaccine first recommended by the World Health Organization last October. A total of 43,000 doses arrived by air today from UNICEF, and another 120,000 are scheduled to show up in the coming days. 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