25 April 2017 – A WHO-coordinated programme will pilot world’s first malaria vaccine in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi in 2018. The injectable vaccine was developed to protect young children from the most deadly form of malaria. Global efforts reduced malaria deaths by 62% between 2000 and 2015, yet approximately 429 000 people died of the disease in 2015 – the majority of them young children in Africa.
