Cameroon Rolls Out First Routine Malaria Vaccination Program for Children

FILE - A mother holds her baby receiving a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya on Oct. 30, 2009. Cameroon is beginning the world's first routine immunization program against malaria for children.

Monday Cameroon became the first country to establish a routine malaria vaccination program for children.