Nigeria: Malaria Vaccination, a Welcome Idea in Bayelsa

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Nigeria has started a large-scale vaccination campaign against malaria. The West African country is the country that most often kills people from the tropical infectious disease. Almost a third of all malaria deaths come from Nigeria, where a large vaccination round is now being held for the first time. Children between the ages of five and fifteen months will receive the vaccine. The vaccinations will start in the states of Bayelsa and Kebbi, w…

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Kebbi launches malaria vaccination for children aged 5-11 months to combat disease

The Kebbi State Ministry of Health in collaboration with the State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA), has inaugurated the rollout of malaria vaccination for children from five to 11 months in the state.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme is being launched simultaneously in Bayelsa. NAN also reports that the Dep. Gov. Umar Abubakar-Tafida, of Kebbi, flagged off the malaria vaccine immunisation exercise in Birn…

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Nigeria begins malaria vaccine rollout

The NewsNigeria, the country with the most malaria deaths, began rolling out a new vaccine against the disease for the first time. The vaccine — given to children up to five years old, the worst affected population — has an effectiveness rate of 75%, meaning other prevention tools are still necessary. Africa accounts for almost the entirety of the world’s malaria deaths, with Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, representing nearly a t…

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Ogun eyes malaria-free status by 2030

The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, on Monday, said that the state is hoping to be the first to be declared malaria-free in the country by 2030.

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Nigeria: Malaria Vaccination, a Welcome Idea in Bayelsa

Some parents in Bayelsa State have expressed happiness over the federal government's initiative to introduce malaria vaccine for children in the state, stating that it will help reduce the burden of treating their children frequently.

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Malaria in Nigeria: New vaccine rolls out in world's worst-affected country

It could save the lives of thousands of children in Nigeria, where 180,000 died from malaria in 2022.