Malaria is one of humanity’s oldest and deadliest diseases - responsible for more deaths than all wars combined. Today, sub-Saharan Africa carries the heaviest burden, with the disease still killing around 1,000 children every day.
After more than a century of scientific trial and error, two malaria vaccines are now being rolled out across African countries and communities.
This three-part series from Fix The News takes you inside the rollout and behind one of the most consequential public-health breakthroughs of our time.
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First Episodes
A Shot At History - Trailer
Over a year ago, we decided that we wanted to tell the storyof the malaria vaccine; one of the most important yet hidden stories of progress in the world right now. We...
A Shot At History, Part 1 - The Stakes
Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases of all time - responsible for more deaths than all of humanity's wars combined. That means that the arrival of not one, but tw...
A Shot At History, Part 2 - The Chain
Rolling out a new vaccine across an entire continent takes an extraordinary chain of people - from the scientists in the labs, to delivery truck drivers and healthcare...
A Shot At History, Part 3 - The Jab
In our final episode of the series, we’ll uncover the surprising stories behind the science of the world’s first jab for malaria and how this ‘orphan’ vaccine became a...
