First large-scale malaria vaccine trials for Africa A new malaria vaccine will be tested on a large scale in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organization says, with 360,000 children to be vaccinated between 2018 and 2020, and Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional director, says it "will shine the spotlight on this deadly disease which continues to kill over 400 thousand people mostly children under the age of five years in subsaharan Africa each year". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES