22 December 2008 (IRIN) - The world’s most clinically advanced
malaria vaccine trials have given new hope in the fight against the
disease, which in sub-Saharan Africa kills a child every 30 seconds.
Malaria experts recently meeting in the Burkina Faso capital
Ouagadougou say promising vaccine research aside, governments in West
Africa must step up existing measures to prevent the spread of the
disease.
Results published on 11 December in the New England Journal of Medicine
showed that the vaccine candidate RTS,S/AS (made by GlaxoSmithKline
(GSK) Biologicals), provides both infants and young children with
significant protection against malaria