On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the launch of a vaccine pilot for malaria in the country of Malawi. Malawi is the first of three African countries, including Ghana and Kenya, which will introduce the vaccine known as RTS,S to children of up to two years of age. Each year, malaria kills 435,000 people worldwide, the majority of them being African children. Additionally, according to the WHO’s press release for the vaccine, the disease claims the life of one child every two minutes.