--- title: World's First Malaria Vaccine Could Be a Year Away description: Study shows promising findings, while pharmaceutical company applies for first-ever regulatory approval of malaria vaccine canonical: https://time.com/3056843/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-could-be-a-year-away/ author: Per Liljas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-30T05:49:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:24:44.327Z article:section: Health og:title: World's First Malaria Vaccine Could Be a Year Away og:description: Study shows promising findings, while pharmaceutical company applies for first-ever regulatory approval of malaria vaccine og:url: https://time.com/3056843/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-could-be-a-year-away/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt879d248f35fc13fd/69869dbae53aba0d194d3caf/rtr39lvo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1651 og:image:height: 929 og:image:alt: RTR39LVO og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: World's First Malaria Vaccine Could Be a Year Away twitter:description: Study shows promising findings, while pharmaceutical company applies for first-ever regulatory approval of malaria vaccine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt879d248f35fc13fd/69869dbae53aba0d194d3caf/rtr39lvo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # World's First Malaria Vaccine Could Be a Year Away > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Jul 30, 2014 5:49 AM UTC  A Thai public-health official places a thermometer into a child's mouth at a malaria clinic in Sai Yoke district, Kanchanaburi province, Thailand, on Oct. 26, 2012 A Thai public-health official places a thermometer into a child's mouth at a malaria clinic in Sai Yoke district, Kanchanaburi province, Thailand, on Oct. 26, 2012 Sukree Sukplang—Reuters by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Jul 30, 2014 5:49 AM UTC The world’s first malaria vaccine may just be a year away, after a thorough trial of a new drug [showed](http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001685#authcontrib) promising results. _PLOS Medicine_ on Tuesday published a study, in which researchers found that for every 1,000 children who received the vaccine, 800 cases of illness could be prevented. The children also retained protection 18 months after being injected. Now, pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has applied the drug for regulatory approval — the first time a malaria vaccine has reached this stage. “This is a milestone,” Sanjeev Krishna, professor of molecular parasitology and medicine at St. George’s, University of London, who reviewed the paper for the journal, [told](http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28541939) the BBC. “The landscape of malaria-vaccine development is littered with carcasses, with vaccines dying left, right and center. We need to keep a watchful eye for adverse events, but everything appears on track for the vaccine to be approved as early as next year.” Around 800,000 people die from malaria every year, most of them children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. 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