Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Africa water, Sanitation May-June2015 Vol. 10 No.3 | Page 36

Water & Health

Final trial results of the world’s most advanced malaria vaccine
The first malaria
vaccine candidate
(RTS, S/AS01) to reach
phase 3 clinical testing
is partially effective
against clinical disease
in young African
children up to 4 years
after vaccination, according to final trial data, published
in The Lancet. The results suggest that the vaccine could
prevent a substantial number of cases of clinical X[\