Will a vaccine eradicate malaria?
The world's first routine vaccine programme against malaria started in Cameroon this week, in a move projected to save thousands of children's lives across Africa.
Malaria kills more than 600,000 people around the world every year. But this week, Cameroon became the first country to start a mass rollout of the world鈥檚 first ever malaria vaccine 鈥� the WHO-approved RTS,S vaccine.
It is hoped that other countries will follow, in a move projected to save thousands of children's lives across Africa.
But will vaccine hesitancy stop parents having their children vaccinated?
On today鈥檚 Africa Daily podcast, Alan Kasujja talks to Professor Rose Leke, an internationally acclaimed Malaria expert who鈥檚 studied the disease for decades.
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