**11.8 Development of a malaria vaccine**

Vaccination of infectious diseases has a long history of success in curing disease. Similarly, malaria vaccination is being introduced to protect the vaccinated individual while also preventing malaria transmission in the environment. Malaria

vaccines can prove to be a dynamic approach to malaria control and eradication. Malaria vaccines target three stages of the parasite's life cycle: (i) pre-erythrocytic (sporozoite/hepatic), (ii) erythrocytic (asexual), and (iii) reproductive (transmission blocking).
