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A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The vaccine has been developed by the University of Oxford and is only the second malaria vaccine to be developed. There are already agreements in place to manufacture more than 100 million doses a year.

It has taken more than a century of scientific effort to develop effective vaccines against malaria.

Health correspondent James Gallagher explains to What in The World's Hannah Gelbart what the development means for the thousands of people across the world blighted by the disease.

(Picture: A nurse fills a syringe with malaria vaccine before administering it to an infant at the Lumumba Sub-County hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, July 1, 2022. Credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner/File Photo)