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.

Babies in the Ivory Coast and South Sudan will begin receiving doses of the world's first affordable malaria vaccine from today. R21, approved for children under three, costs around $4 a dose and ...

The RTS,S/AS01 vaccine – also known as Mosquirix – will be administered to children living in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with moderate to high malaria transmission in what WHO ...