{"id":211571,"date":"2025-10-28T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-launches-malaria-vaccine-to-protect-over-half-million-children\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:12:21","slug":"zambia-launches-malaria-vaccine-to-protect-over-half-million-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-launches-malaria-vaccine-to-protect-over-half-million-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Launches Malaria Vaccine to Protect Over Half Million Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>The Ministry of Health also presented the Costed Primary Health Care (PHC) Strategy 2025-2031 and its Operational Plan (2025-2026)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\"><strong>Lusaka, Zambia, 27 October 2025<\/strong> &#8211; The Government of the Republic of Zambia, through the Ministry of Health, today officially launched the malaria vaccine R21\/Matrix-M,as part of its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), marking a historic milestone in the country&#8217;s fight against malaria. Over 500,000 children aged 6-8 months will be vaccinated in the months&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health also presented the Costed Primary Health Care (PHC) Strategy 2025-2031 and its Operational Plan (2025-2026) Lusaka, Zambia, 27 October 2025 &#8211; The Government of the Republic of Zambia, through the Ministry of Health, today officially launched the malaria vaccine R21\/Matrix-M,as part of its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), marking a historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7371,5957,7993,5118,257,6202,254,13567,4709,881],"class_list":["post-211571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-launches","tag-malaria","tag-million","tag-news","tag-protect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vaccine","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211571","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}