To Make Malaria Vaccine in Africa

HEALTH: The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine, or Mosquirix, developed by pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for broad use among children. This is a breakthrough in combating malaria, an ancient scourge of humankind, spread through mosquitoes. The disease kill nearly 300,000 children younger than […]