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...trends continue, health officials predict that by 2030, 17 million people will die worldwide of cancer, and 75 million people will be living with the disease and require treatment and follow-up care. That makes cancer the leading killer in the world, claiming more lives than AIDS, TB and malaria combined. "It is a crisis for public health and health systems worldwide," says Peter Boyle, director of IARC...
...first of the two studies involved 894 children from 5 to 17 months old in Kenya and Tanzania. Part of the group was administered a vaccine being developed by GSK and bankrolled in part by the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, under a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. After receiving the shots, all the babies were visited weekly, and their blood was tested for both the malaria parasite and malaria antibodies. On average, the group that received the injections had a 53% lower infection rate than the control group, and the effect lasted for up to eight months. That still...
...persistent worry about any malaria vaccine is how well it will get along with vaccines already administered against other childhood ills. It does no one any good if the new inoculation wrecks the protections offered by existing ones. For that reason, a second study followed 394 Tanzanian infants who were administered a slightly different formulation of the GSK vaccine at 8, 12 and 16 weeks of age, along with routine inoculations against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and influenza B. The vaccine not only did not get in the way of those vaccines but also successfully slashed malaria infections by 55% over...
...pretends that even with these results malaria is anywhere near beaten. Two more years of testing followed by the bureaucratic labyrinth of the approval process - to say nothing of the logistical headache of actually getting a vaccine to the people who need it - means millions more are still almost certain to die. For that reason the World Health Organization and other groups are stepping up their push to deliver pesticides and mosquito-resistant bed nets across Africa. Those efforts by themselves have rolled back parasite prevalence by 50% in Zambia. Add that to an even imperfect vaccine...
...pictures of the global fight against Malaria...