Vaccines for malaria and AIDS.

Diseases such as malaria and AIDS could have a vaccine in the next years.

Malaria parasites

Malaria: In October, GlaxoSmithKline announced it will start selling a vaccine against malaria in 2015. 

The vaccine, called RTS, S, is experienced in 15,000 babies in sub-Saharan Africa. 

A few months later there were 47% fewer cases of malaria in children 5 to 17 months. 

It you induce the body to make antibodies, in this Case against a protein made ​​by the infectious stage of the malaria parasite.

It is expected that  to be a highly effective malaria vaccine within the next ten years.

HIV protein bound to antibodies

AIDS: HIV is responsible for 1.6 million of death in 2012.

2009 trial that showed modest efficacy.

This 16.402 person trial, conducted in Thailand, protected 31% of men and women at 42 months after vaccination.

That´s not good enough to market the vaccine but the results os the Thai trial provide, at last, a sketch of what immunity against HIV might look like.

Link to the article in the journal "Nature"