Hundreds of thousands of people die every year from malaria, mostly children under five and mostly in Africa. However researchers hope a new vaccine ca significantly reduce the number of deaths and ...

Gavi and UNICEF announce a new agreement to bulk procure the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine at a reduced price, aiming to save ...

The R21/Matrix-M vaccine produces antibodies that bind to a specific site on a key protein of the malaria parasite. The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine generates nearly identical antibodies as those ...

Gavi and UNICEF's new agreement aims to make malaria vaccines more affordable, saving $90 million and benefiting millions of children.

A new malaria vaccine showed encouraging results in a phase 1 study conducted in Bamako, Mali, West Africa, a region where malaria remains a year-round threat to public health. Published in NEJM ...

A new, investigational malaria vaccine is showing promise among a significant proportion of healthy adults in Africa, according to a study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases. The vaccine, known ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday issued approval to the world's first vaccine that can fight malaria, a disease that kills about 500,000 people worldwide each year. The WHO issued a ...

A novel way to prevent the spread of malaria – a potentially life-threatening disease transmitted through bites from mosquitoes infected by a parasite – could soon be realized, thanks to scientists at ...

(Reuters) - A potential new malaria vaccine has proved highly effective in a trial in babies in Africa, pointing to it one day possibly helping reduce the death toll from the mosquito-born disease ...

"The mosquito is one of the deadliest animals on the planet," declared two South African researchers in a recent Nature article. This tiny insect is responsible for spreading malaria, a disease that ...