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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU & MUSINGUZI GOODLUCK
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025
Given the challenge of high rate of morbidity and mortality due to malaria, a health official has appealed to the public to stick to the schedule for vaccination.
“The vaccine does not completely prevent malaria but it can prevent severe effects such as convulsion and seizures,” Dr Alfred Amandu, the Arua City principal health officer in-charge of environment, said in remarks during an interview with the West Nile News on Thursday.
Last month, the ministry of health rolled out and introduced into routine immunization, a vaccine for malaria.
The vaccine is given to children between the ages of six months to one year and adds a layer of protection to measures such as sleeping under insecticide treated nets and keeping the environment clean.
After the first dose, the second dose is given after one month and the third dose after another one month. The last dose is however administered to children six months from the third dose.
“People should not worry about vaccine because it has been scientifically tested and found to be an effective antigen,” Dr Amandu said.
Other malaria vaccination programs are also underway in Kenya, Ghana and other African countries where anopheles mosquito, the malaria carrying mosquito is endemic.
