Financial Times: Hopes rise for malaria vaccine as oil companies fund trials
“Two U.S. oil companies are pouring millions of dollars into the trials of a promising malaria vaccine in Equatorial Guinea in a rare sign of foreign investors trying to help tackle one of Africa’s biggest health scourges. Marathon Oil and Noble Energy have teamed up with the government of Equatorial Guinea to fund trials of one of the most hotly tipped malaria vaccines in development…” (Ward, 6/28).