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Ghana becomes first country to approve new malaria vaccine

A nurse administers an anti-malaria vaccine to a child at Ewin Polyclinic in Ghana's Cape Coast on 30 April, 2019. AFP - CRISTINA ALDEHUELA

Ghana is the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine, from Oxford University, aimed at children under the age of three, who are most at risk of dying from the disease.

Oxford scientist Adrian Hill said Ghana's drug regulator has approved the vaccine for the age group at highest risk of death from malaria – children aged 5 to 36 months.

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