Ella Al-Shamahi meets two women on the frontline in the fight against malaria.
Dr Ify Aniebo is from Nigeria, the country worst hit by malaria. She is an Associate professor with the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, where she works to improve the country's response to drug resistance and malarial transmission.
Dr Mehreen Datoo is a clinical lecturer in Infectious Diseases at the University of Oxford and she’s on the team that developed the R21/Matrix-M, the WHO approved vaccine that will be rolled out across Africa in 2024.
Produced by Alice Gioia and Emily Naylor
(Image: (L) Dr Ify Aniebo, courtesy Dr Ify Aniebo. (R) Dr Mehreen Datoo, credit Dr Mehreen Datoo.)