
Halidou Tinto, who runs a research site in Nanoro, Burkina Faso, helped build up the infrastructure to test experimental malaria interventions in the field — and demonstrate the effectiveness of the world’s first malaria vaccines. The researchers who first designed the vaccines in the lab have credited Tinto and his colleagues with producing the rigorous data that helped lead to the approval of the shots, a crucial step toward bringing the immunizations to children in Burkina Faso and across sub-Saharan Africa.
From STAT:
Behind the malaria vaccines: A 40-year quest against one of humanity’s biggest killers