Vera Unwin
Editor at BugBitten
Vera Unwin gained her Bsc (Hons) in Biomedical sciences (University of Dundee), before completing her MSc in Medical Parasitology (LSHTM) and gaining exciting field experience working in the Amazon, Brazil. After working in the malaria vaccine group at the Jenner Institute (University of Oxford), she moved to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to work on filarial nematode cell lines and then Mycobacterium tuberculosis risk factors. She is currently doing a PhD at the LSTM developing and evaluating diagnostics for malaria elimination settings.
A malaria elimination catch up- Algeria leads the way
Algeria sets precedent for malaria elimination in other African countries.
Algeria (image source: Creative Commons)
Shortly after Bugbitten’s recent Malaria elimination: are we nearly there yet? we were elated to hear that Algeria has been certified as one of the 38 malaria-free countries. This makes Algeria the second country to join the list in 2019 after Argentina.
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