By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Some Nigerian health experts have welcomed the RTS, S/AS01 malaria vaccine recently approved by the World Health Organisation.
According to their comments on Thursday, the vaccine would reduce death of children in Africa.
A consultant parasitologist at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi-Araba, Prof. Wellington Oyibo, and the President of the Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria, Prof. Oladapo Ashiru, made this known to the Punch in an interview.
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They said this as the Federal Government stated that it was considering buying the vaccine.
Recall that the WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, at a news conference on Wednesday said the organisation had endorsed the RTS, S/AS01 (RTS, S) malaria vaccine for children in Africa.
The global body gave the approval following a two-year vaccine programme that involved children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.
