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Benin Republic gets first malaria vaccines
The Benin Republic has started receiving doses of a malaria vaccine.
Benin’s Health Minister, Benjamin Hounkpatin told reporters that “Malaria remains endemic and represents the leading cause of death among children under five years of age in Benin.â€
According to AFP, he made this statement at the airport in Cotonou, where the government received 215,900 doses of the RTS,S vaccine.
He said that the first shots will happen "within a few months."
He claims that malaria accounts for 25% of hospital admissions and 40% of outpatient consultations in the nation. "Around 200,000 children" under the age of two will receive the vaccine, according to UNICEF office in Benin immunisation specialist Benin Faustin Yao, who spoke with AFP.
At six months, seven months, nine months, and eighteen months of age, he stated, infants will receive four doses.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that within the course of the next two years, twelve different African countries would get 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine.
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