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C\u00f4te d’Ivoire has begun vaccinating children against malaria using a new, affordable vaccine that it’s hoped will prove a game changer in the fight against the deadly disease. Several other countries in Africa are expected to roll it out this year. <\/em><\/p>\n Health workers in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire began administering free doses of the R21\/Matrix-M vaccine<\/a> on Monday, in the first official vaccination campaign to use it.<\/p>\n Around 250,000 infants under two<\/a> are expected to benefit in 16 regions across the country,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> C\u00f4te d’Ivoire has begun vaccinating children against malaria using a new, affordable vaccine that it’s hoped will prove a game changer in the fight against the deadly disease. Several other countries in Africa are expected to roll it out this year. Health workers in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire began administering free doses of the R21\/Matrix-M vaccine on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00181070:d030c0fc12aeea4f42b860c8617eaa14:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,4380,5958,6183,6555,5959,1218,7023,7993,257,6936,18095,254,13567],"class_list":["post-176733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-kicks","tag-malaria","tag-news","tag-promising","tag-rollout","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vaccine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00181070:d030c0fc12aeea4f42b860c8617eaa14:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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