# WHO recommends RTS,S malaria vaccine after foundation-backed trials

Date: 2021

## The fact

On 6 October 2021 WHO recommended the RTS,S malaria vaccine for children in moderate-to-high transmission, after trials the Gates Foundation had heavily funded.

## Context

Neighbouring GAVI is the later purchaser. Neighbouring polio 2022 is a different pathogen. He did not write the SAGE opinion as a WHO officer.

GAVI 2000 is neighbouring purchaser architecture. Polio 2022 is neighbouring eradication finance.

[Bill Gates](/people/bill-gates) was Microsoft CEO until January 2000, chairman until February 2014, then a technical adviser until 2020, and a Gates Foundation co-chair. That is not authorship of every Windows copy, every GAVI dose, or every IRS schedule. Melinda French Gates is a different person. Bill Clinton is PER-000772, a different person. A pledge is not a coverage rate. A docket is not a personality.

## Evidence and sources

World Health Organization carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [vaccine-accessibility](/drivers/vaccine-accessibility) and infectious-disease-transmission: a completed WHO malaria-vaccine recommendation after foundation-backed trials is an immunization instrument. A recommendation is not a coverage rate.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 6 October 2021 WHO RTS,S recommendation after foundation-backed trials, independently reported.

Not established: that malaria died that week, or a unique later child-mortality coefficient from Geneva.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

GSK made the antigen. WHO recommended. GAVI and ministries later procured. He did not sit as SAGE.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies WHO recommends RTS,S malaria vaccine after foundation-backed trials, not a later speech about WHO recommends RTS,S malaria vaccine after foundation-backed trials.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. WHO recommends RTS,S malaria vaccine after foundation-backed trials on 2021-10-06 is not a licence to treat every later World Health Organization communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average WHO recommends RTS,S malaria vaccine after foundation-backed trials into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His foundation funded trials. GSK made the antigen. WHO recommended. GAVI and ministries later procured. He did not sit as SAGE. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Bill Gates: https://factrail.ai/people/bill-gates

## Drivers

- Vaccine Accessibility: https://factrail.ai/drivers/vaccine-accessibility
- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/who-malaria-vaccine-rts-s-2021-10-06/
- https://www.who.int/news/item/06-10-2021-who-recommends-groundbreaking-malaria-vaccine-for-children-at-risk

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gates-malaria-rts-2021