Breakthrough malaria vaccine could be in Africa by 2015
This is certainly a significant breakthrough. Doctors already have several weapons in their fight against Malaria, such as impregnated bed nets that stop the mosquitos biting you and spreading the parasite that causes malaria.
There are drugs that you can give if people do get malaria. You can spray to try to kill the mosquitos that spread it. But all those have problems and none are as good as a vaccine would be. That is a vaccine that attacks the parasite that causes malaria.
Dr Allan Pamba, from GlaxoSmithKline, talked about new doors that have opened in treatment:
GSK, the company that developed this one, spent half a billion pounds on it, and it has taken 30 years to develop. The trial is not finished yet, it has got about another year to run.
It could be approved by the European Medicines Agency next year and could be in use in Africa by 2015-16.