ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast this week received its first vaccines against malaria, a disease that kills four people a day in the country, mostly small children, the government said Saturday.

Children in Ivory Coast received the first doses of a new, relatively cheap malaria vaccine on Monday, a step that has been hailed as a major milestone in the battle against one of the world’s ...

Earlier this year, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo also began using the vaccine. Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have trialled another malaria vaccine - RTS,S. Nigeria was not included in ...

She earned her PhD in molecular biology from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia and completed ... The researchers tested the vaccine along with other available malaria vaccines in mice.