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Combine an anti-malarial drug with the Mosquirix vaccine to reduce malaria incidence and mortality in young African children by almost 75%. This is the surprising conclusion of a study published in the English scientific journal The New England Journal of Medicine, published after an experiment that took place over three years.…

It is the first vaccine in the world and the only one that is effective against malaria in children. This is the RTS, S vaccine. And so far, about 650,000 children in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya have benefited from it thanks to a pilot program that started two years ago. According to the World Health Organization, the vaccine had positive effects and led to lower mortality. An efficiency that gives hope…

While some countries have not launched their vaccination campaign against Covid-19, others today are at the gates of collective immunity, just like Israel. RFI dedicates a special day to vaccination around the world on Monday 19 April. They will be able to return from May 23 on the beaches of Tel Aviv. Tourists will soon be able to re-enter Israeli territory. The consequence of the vaccination campaign started in December last year and which made it possible to control the pandemic locally. Israel would now be close to…