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    Joe Cohen, a GlaxoSmithKline researcher, said test results have been promising so far. "No prices have been set for the vaccine, Cohen said, though families in Africa may not have to pay anything for it because the [Bill & Melinda] Gates Foundation, UNICEF, WHO and the GAVI Alliance would provide funds. GlaxoSmithKline 'is committed to making sure pricing will never be a barrier to access for this vaccine,' Cohen said" (Straziuso, 11/3). Samuel Kariuki, deputy chief researcher of the vaccine trials, said, "We expect that this vaccine will have a tremendous effect in the reduction of the number of admissions we see in the hospital and the number of deaths that occur due to malaria, especially in young children," Al Jazeera reports (11/3). Full Article at Medical News Today
    No prices have been set for the vaccine, Cohen said, though families in Africa may not have to pay anything for it because the [Bill & Melinda] Gates Foundation, UNICEF, WHO and the GAVI Alliance would provide funds. GlaxoSmithKline 'is committed to making sure pricing will never be a barrier to access for this vaccine,' Cohen said
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 3 weeks ago
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Malaria Conference Addresses RTS,S Vaccine, Tools, Treatment
  1. Of course 53% is not ideal
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 3 weeks ago
  2. Speaking at the ongoing international conference on Monday, the director of Malaria Control Team at the Clinton Foundation, Dr. Oliver Sabot, said the Board of Directors of Global Fund would be meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in about two weeks to decide which countries will benefit from cheaper malari...
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  3. In Phase II trials, the RTS,S vaccine showed a 53% reduction in clinical episodes of malaria for eight months in children 5 to 17 months old last year, and in August, a trial in Mozambique of kids aged 1 to 4 years suggested that the vaccine is capable of providing protection for up to 45 months, but at...
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 3 weeks ago
  4. If regulators determine the vaccine is safe, it could be on the market in three to five years - the first vaccine against a human parasite.
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 3 weeks ago
  5. The operation of the distribution chain has a major influence on which antimalarials are available to retailers, and their price and quality. ... Influencing practices of providers near the top of the chain may be the most cost-effective way to change outcomes in this market
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  6. We have known one form of pyrathroid resistance for about nine years, one in Western Kenya (of a not very strong kind) and another in West Africa and we have been tracking that.
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  7. The world would like to see 80 to 90% efficacy and slightly longer lasting [effects], but clearly the research is moving in a positive direction
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 3 weeks ago
  8. Key among the strategies ... is the development of an effective anti-malaria vaccine, a project scientists have been researching since the late 80s. ... RTS,S is the most clinically advanced malaria vaccine so far, according to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 3 weeks ago
  9. We expect that this vaccine will have a tremendous effect in the reduction of the number of admissions we see in the hospital and the number of deaths that occur due to malaria, especially in young children
    SOURCE: Medical News Today 3 weeks ago

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