New malaria vaccine results raise hopes of mass rollout

Oxford's R21/Matrix-M vaccine meanwhile was found to be 77 percent effective at preventing malaria

For the usual standard of vaccines this can seem a very low cut off value to consider approval, but this is actually a huge adavancement. Millions of patients will benefit thanks to an unprecedent advance of medical science. Even if no better vaccine comes up in the near future this one would save countless lives if it can be produced and distributed in the places where it is most needed.

And the best thing is that this proves that useful vaccines against parasitic diseases are not something impossible, so it is likely vaccines against other diseases can follow and a huge burden can be lifted around the world.

The international research team suggested the vaccine, developed by Britain's Oxford University, could represent a turning point in the fight against the mosquito-borne parasitic disease, which killed 627,000 people -- mostly African children -- in 2020 alone.

Among the WHO's many failures and struggles lately as a mismanaged agency, its failure in the malaria arena have been particularly shameful.

It is an almost cruel irony that this agency is trying to rename the aptly named monkey pox virus (found in monkeys) because of perceived racist connotations but at the same time this agency has failed the African continent on the malaria front.

An actualhealth authority like the CDC should replace the WHO and we will see equal health opportunities for all.

Among the WHO's many failures and struggles lately as a mismanaged agency, its failure in the malaria arena have been particularly shameful.

What are you talking about? the WHO is precisely what made this vaccine possible, that is the opposite of a failure, it has managed to do more about it that any other institution.

It is an almost cruel irony that this agency is trying to rename the aptly named monkey pox virus (found in monkeys) because of perceived racist connotations but at the same time this agency has failed the African continent on the malaria front.

The renaming is done because of a movement done by medical professionals that are asking for it to be done, and it is no contradiction. The WHO in its role as a global health authority is precisely the responsible for this and many other actions against malaria that have benefitted the African continent.

An actualhealth authority like the CDC should replace the WHO and we will see equal health opportunities for all.

What has the CDC done for malaria in Africa? or about any other problem?