By Ben Musanje
21st April 2022
The World Health Organization-WHO has indicated that Uganda might access the first batch of Malaria vaccine in 2024 once the country works on the procurement paperwork in September this year.
Yesterday, while responding to prayers in a motion at Parliament, the Minister for Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng said that Government will start the implementation of the malaria vaccine at the end of 2023 in an effort of epidemic prevention, controlling and elimination in Uganda.
Now, speaking to Dr. Annet Kisakye, the National Professional Officer for Routine Immunization at WHO said that the Ministry of Health team will have to assess the local epidemiological data that will help in prioritizing high burdened areas in the malaria vaccination campaign.
She says that being among the tools of controlling and elimination of malaria by 2030, the vaccine is approved to be administered to only children between five months and above and these will be required to receive four doses in intervals of four weeks for the first three doses and 12 months for the last dose.
Dr. Kisakye says that the Government of Uganda will have to co-finance the procurement of these vaccines.
A total of 20 million cases and a death toll of 30,900 people in 2020 alone include over 70,000 children less than five years.
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