New Hope for Ending Malaria Among Children

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Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

A mother watches over her ill child: Three doses of a malaria vaccine undergoing clinical trials reduce the risk of children aged between five and 17 months from experiencing clinical malaria - by 56 percent - and severe malaria - by 47 percent.
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Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

A doctor attends to a child with malaria at a pediatric ward in Kisumu, Kenya. This site is one of 11 in seven African countries conducting a trial of the vaccine.
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Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

A nurse administers the first vaccination to a child in the trial.
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Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

Dr. Salim Abdulla, principal investigator at a trial site in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, stands with the first children to be vaccinated at the start of the trial in May 2009.
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Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

A worried mother, bedside, in the Siaya District Hospital in Siaya, Kenya, another trial site.
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Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

A mother signs her daughter in at a hospital in Kilifi, Kenya - also a trial site.
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Credit: David Poland/PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

Another mother takes her child to Kilifi District Hospital to receive a vaccination.