{"id":89930,"date":"2019-04-24T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T23:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-to-go-to-360000-african-children"},"modified":"2019-04-24T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T23:47:01","slug":"worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-to-go-to-360000-african-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-to-go-to-360000-african-children","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first malaria vaccine to go to 360,000 African children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-to-go-to-360000-african-children2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some 360,000 children a year in three African countries will receive the world\u2019s first malaria vaccine as part of a large-scale pilot project, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi has started vaccinating children under two years of age and Kenya and Ghana will begin using the vaccine in the coming weeks, with health ministries in these countries deciding where it will be used, the WHO said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/23\/health\/malaria-africa-worlds-first-vaccine-intl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 360,000 children a year in three African countries will receive the world\u2019s first malaria vaccine as part of a large-scale pilot project, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. Malawi has started vaccinating children under two years of age and Kenya and Ghana will begin using the vaccine in the coming weeks, with health [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}