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Increase in malaria deaths
The World Health Organization has called for a 鈥渕assive, urgent鈥 effort to get the new malaria vaccine into the arms of African children, as it warned that about 180,000 more people were dying annually from the disease than had previously been thought, as we hear from Dr Akpaka Kalu, who is the WHO's team leader for malaria in Africa.
(Photo: child with malaria at a clinic in Ivory Coast, 2021. Credit: Reuters)
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