Cote d’Ivoire: Côte d’Ivoire Receives First Life-Saving Malaria Vaccines

Côte d’Ivoire this week received its first vaccines against malaria, a disease that kills four people a day in the country, mostly small children, the government said Saturday.

A total of 656,600 doses have been received, which will “initially vaccinate 250,000 children aged between 0 and 23 months” in 16 regions, the government said.

Although the number of malaria-related deaths has fallen from 3,222 in 2017 to 1,316 in 2020 in Côte d’Ivoire, the mosquito-borne disease “remains the leading…