Five things you need to know about the new R21 malaria vaccine

Gavi
Apr 13, 2023

Five things you need to know about the new R21 malaria vaccine


Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve the highly anticipated R21 malaria vaccine that could save millions from the mosquito-borne disease. The disease kills a child every minute worldwide and in Ghana itself there were 5.3 million cases and 12,500 deaths in 2021.

The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured and scaled up by the Serum Institute of India (SII), is only the second vaccine the world has seen for a disease that has caused untold suffering for millennia.