The World Health Organization,WHO,has declared thenation where malaria was discovered as officially free of malaria, making itthe third African country to eliminate one of the world’s leading killerdiseases. With no recorded cases of malaria in threeconsecutive years, Argentina was also declared malaria-free – the secondcountry in the Americas after Paraguay in 45 years to wipe out the disease,which kills more than 400,000 people a year. Now Algeria has shown the rest of Africa thatmalaria can be beaten through country leadership, bold action, sound investmentand science. Although WHO has declared 38 countries malaria-freesince 1955, the fight against malaria has stalled as malaria-carryingmosquitoes have become resistant to drugs and insecticides in bednets thatprotect people from being bitten while sleeping. Head of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership to End Malaria,Abdourahmane Diallo, said Algeria is the third African nation to become malariafree, after Mauritius in 1973 and Morocco in 2010, which brings economicbenefits.