*[Enwl-eng] Malaria vaccine breakthrough puts eradication in view

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                  Global Edition - Today's top story: 'We could eradicate malaria by 2040' says expert after revolutionary vaccine is approved by WHO View in browser 
                   Global Edition | 5 October 2023 
                 
           
                   
                    
                 
           
           
                  Malaria is one of the biggest killers of children under five in the world, most of them in Africa. And so when, last year, we saw that results from a phase 3 clinical trial of a new malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford were imminent, we wanted to talk to the people behind it for The Conversation Weekly podcast.

                  Last week, those results were finally released (in pre-print), showing the vaccine had an efficacy of 75%. And days later, the World Health Organization recommended its use on children, making it the second vaccine to receive such approval since 2021 and raising the possibility of eradicating the disease within decades.

                  We spoke to Adrian Hill, chief investigator of the group behind the new malaria vaccine, who was also involved in developing the Oxford/Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccination. He told The Conversation Weekly all about the decades-long search for a way to prevent malaria, and why the new vaccine could be a gamechanger because of how easy it is to mass produce. You can listen to the podcast here and read excerpts of the interview here.
                 
                          Gemma Ware

                        Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast
                       
                 
                   
                  ‘We could eradicate malaria by 2040’ says expert after revolutionary vaccine is approved by WHO 
                  Adrian Hill, University of Oxford 

                  People have been trying to make malaria vaccines for over 100 years. With the help of the revolutionary new R21/Matrix vaccine the disease could be eradicated by 2040.
                 
                   
                  The long road to a new malaria vaccine, told by the scientists behind the breakthrough – podcast 
                  Daniel Merino, The Conversation; Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation 

                  In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we hear from the scientists behind a new malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford.
                 
                       
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