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Will Promising New Malaria Vaccine Deliver?
ABCNews -- A new vaccine offering the best hope in the fight against the killer disease malaria could be on the market for African children in three to five years -- but the real challenge may be in making sure that it's available to the babies and toddlers in some of the poorest, most remote areas of Africa. With many life-saving medications in Africa, such as anti-retroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS, getting them out to people has been nearly as difficult to deal with as manufacturing the drugs themselves. The vaccine for Hepatitis B, for example, took nearly 10 years after being approved to be available to the general African population. The Path Malaria Initiative, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the pharmaceutical company...
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11.23.09 - Updated 11:11pm ET
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