The world’s first malaria vaccine should be given to children across Africa, the World Health Organisation recommended Wednesday, a move that officials hope will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called it a historic moment” after a meeting in which two of the UN health agency’s expert advisory groups endorsed using the vaccine.

The world’s first malaria vaccine should be given to children across Africa, the World Health Organisation recommended Wednesday, a move that officials hope will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called it a historic moment” after a meeting in which two of the UN health agency’s expert advisory groups endorsed using the vaccine.