Large-scale initiative will also be rolled out in Kenya and Ghana
Malawians go through a medical checkup by a paramedic from a nongovernmental organisation in Makhanga in the southern Malawian district of Nsanje in this photo taken on February 3 2015. Picture: AFP/MAURICIO FERRETTIMalawi is spearheading large-scale pilot tests for the world's most advanced experimental malaria vaccine in a bid to prevent the disease that kills hundreds of thousands across Africa each year.
Trade-named Mosquirix, the drug has been developed by British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative. It passed previous scientific testing — including five years of clinical trials on 15,000 people in seven countries — and was approved for the pilot programme in 2015. Malaria episodes reduced by 40% in the trials.
“Malaria can kill a child in less than 24 hours,” said researcher Tisungane Mvalo, a paediatrician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-Malawi in Lilongwe. “Even if the child survives, malaria can impact every organ, causing brain injury or even kidney issues. Prevention is better than treatment.”Malaria is spread to people through the bites of infected female anopheles mosquitoes.
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