The Minister of Health, Doctor Osagie Ehanire, who spoke at a media briefing in commemoration of World Malaria Day yesterday, said Nigeria has applied for the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in the third application window for the vaccine which ended April 18, 2023.
According to reports, Nigeria failed to apply for the vaccine before the second application window closed on January 17, 2023.
The World Health Organisation, in 2021, recommended the widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with moderate to high Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission.
Nigeria accounts for twenty seven per cent of global malaria cases and thirty two per cent of global malaria deaths.
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