Progress Towards A Malaria Vaccine

A useful survey in Chemical and Engineering News of progress towards a malaria vaccine:

Global funding for malaria vaccine R&D has totaled about $60 million to $70 million per year in recent years, says Melinda Moree, director of MVI, with NIH accounting for about half the total. MVI's budget has doubled in the past two years and this year will reach about $30 million; much of it comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which gave $50 million in 1999 to launch the initiative, followed by another $100 million in 2003. European Union and U.S. agencies, such as the Department of Defense and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), each spend several million dollars per year on malaria vaccine work.