We're excited to see this week's news about the WHO approving the RTS,S malaria vaccine! We've been following these developments for a while, and so we wrote up some initial thoughts: https://blog.givewell.org/2021/10/08/initial-thoughts-on-malaria-vaccine-approval/ ….
This vaccine is a promising addition to the set of tools available to fight malaria, but not a panacea. We expect malaria nets and seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) to continue to be important in the fight against malaria in the near term.