{"id":1818,"date":"2024-09-11T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:44:17","slug":"finally-new-malaria-vaccine-brings-hope-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/finally-new-malaria-vaccine-brings-hope-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, New Malaria Vaccine Brings Hope to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, malaria killed 608,000 people around the world, 95 percent of them in Africa and 80 percent of them children under the age of 5.\u00a0 But hope is on the way.\u00a0 A\u00a0 new, relatively cheap\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/17\/africa\/gene-drive-malaria-control-technology-africa-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">malaria<\/a>\u00a0vaccine has been sent to several African countries and tens of millions more doses are promised.\u00a0 Officials say 500,000 child deaths could be saved every year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children receive first doses of new malaria vaccine, hailed as major milestone<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/15\/health\/malaria-vaccine-children-ivory-coast-intl-scli\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/15\/health\/malaria-vaccine-children-ivory-coast-intl-scli\/index.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780807581117\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, malaria killed 608,000 people around the world, 95 percent of them in Africa and 80 percent of them children under the age of 5.\u00a0 But hope is on the way.\u00a0 A\u00a0 new, relatively cheap\u00a0malaria\u00a0vaccine has been sent to several African countries and tens of millions more doses are promised.\u00a0 Officials say 500,000 child&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/finally-new-malaria-vaccine-brings-hope-to-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Finally, New Malaria Vaccine Brings Hope to Africa&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,55,60,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global","category-health","category-science-technology","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}