Today India is a fourth death causing
country by the malaria parasite after Nigeria. The World Health Organization reported
with the high percent causing death in these countries such as Nigeria with 30
percent, Democratic Republic of Congo with 14 percent, Burkina Faso with 7
percent and India with 7 percent.
The World Health Organization announced the first time
ever malaria vaccine starting in 2018 but month not decided which month started.
The World Health Organization will select three African countries Ghana, Kenya
and Malawi for the malaria vaccine. Africa is the
hardest hit and most of the deaths are mostly among children. WHO is selected
these countries because the director of WHO said Combined with existing malaria
interventions and in this area running so many programmes to tackle malaria. The
RTS, S vaccine trains the immune system to attack the malaria parasite and
spread by mosquito bites, the WHO saying. This vaccine will be given four
times, first month to three month and then last and fourth dose 18 months
later.
Professor Kathryn
Maitland, Imperial College London, he is working in the field of tropical
pediatric infectious diseases. He wrote "Contrast this pace of change with
our progress in the treatment of HIV, a disease a little more than three decades
old." The malaria vaccine has been developed by pharmaceutical company
GlaxoSmithKline, and the $49 million for the first phase of the pilot is being
funded by the global vaccine alliance GAVI, UNITAID and Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle
East also have malaria cases. This information is published in The New England
Journal of Medicine in December.
