WHO Goal:Develop a malaria vaccine by 2025

40 years ago when at Johns Hopkins SPH I heard this goal. Technology might make this goal more realistic than it was. The Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap, a new global strategy, was launched December 4, 2006, at the Global Vaccine Research Forum in Bangkok. The Roadmap calls for joint action among the world's leading international health organizations to accelerate the development and licensing of a highly effective malaria vaccine. It seeks to develop a malaria vaccine by 2025 that would have a protective efficacy of more than 80% against clinical disease and would provide protection for longer than four years. Look also at the Zambia Survey and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative at PATH