“Gumbo, the [Lake Region Economic Block] health pillar lead, reports that the vaccine, alongside other existing malaria interventions, has helped all-cause mortality among children to drop in this region.

He says that while the counties are yet to release official data on the same, statistics from hospitals within have shown a great reduction of prevalence of severe malaria.

‘We might be having hospitalisation of vaccinated children with malaria, but the severity has reduced, their chances of survival are also higher,’ he said.”

From Gavi.