The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has purchased 65,438+0,800,000 malaria vaccines for extensive vaccination of African children, which can protect these children from malaria and prevent tens of thousands of children from dying of malaria. In 20 19, with the promotion of the United Nations, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and other countries started the vaccination pilot work, and more than 800,000 children were vaccinated against malaria to protect them from malaria.
After the pilot vaccination, the World Health Organization recommended to continue vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa according to the results of the pilot vaccination. At present, UNICEF has purchased180,000 malaria vaccines for these high-risk areas, hoping to make children in these areas widely vaccinated with this vaccine to prevent these children from losing their lives due to malaria.
Malaria is still the biggest killer of children under five in Africa. It is said that in 2020, nearly half a million children in Africa will die of malaria. Rose is an infectious disease and a malignant disease that threatens human life caused by parasites. But malaria is also a preventable and treatable disease, which will be life-threatening only if it is not treated in time. However, the medical conditions in many African countries are relatively backward, so it is impossible to achieve universal vaccination of malaria vaccine, and it is even more impossible to provide active and effective treatment for those sick children, so the mortality rate is particularly high.
At present, there are still more than 30 countries in the world with moderate or high malaria transmission. If malaria vaccines can be generally increased and fully vaccinated, more than 25 million children will be protected by vaccines every year to prevent them from losing their lives due to malaria infection. This move by the United Nations has brought benefits to countless children and injected important strength into malaria prevention and control. To achieve universal coverage of malaria vaccine, malaria will no longer be an important killer threatening children.