Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 10447
Malaria: Disease Control
Tabled: 22 October 2024
Answered: 30 October 2024
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the rollout of new medicines developed in the UK to tackle malaria.
Answer
Anneliese DoddsBritish science was key to the development of the first two vaccines ever to be recommended for use by WHO to prevent malaria. The UK's £1.65 billion funding to Gavi is also helping to fund the rollout of malaria vaccines and will immunise more than 6 mil...
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