Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine from Oxford University, a potential step forward in fighting a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of children each year.
It's the first time a major vaccine has been approved in an African country ahead of rich nationsThe approval is unusual as it comes before the publication of final-stage trial data.
"The WHO can provide support, but it is not an approving institution. The FDA has the mandate as a regulator, and that is what we have done," said Delese Darko, the chief executive of Ghana's Food and Drugs Authority . Oxford University scientist Adrian Hill said Ghana's drug regulator has approved the vaccine domestically for the age group at highest risk of death from malaria: children aged five months to 36 months.
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