The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the efforts of Niger, a country in West Africa, in eliminating onchocerciasis-- also known as 'river blindness' -- a parasitic disease caused by a ...

Niger just announced its elimination of river blindness. In 1976, the disease had a prevalence rate in the country of 60%.

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday. Niger is "the fifth ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness. His wife, in her 70s, sits nearby, her body covered in scars beneath her ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis — also known as river blindness — and the fifth worldwide, according to WHO.

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.

Last week the CDC published Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for the first time since the Trump administration froze ...

Kebbi State Commissioner for Health, ismail Yunusa has expressed that river blindness which was endemic ... in fighting the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in the State. Yunusa made this ...

“Moxidectin has a chance of making a large impact.” Neglected diseases, which include river blindness, dengue and scabies, affect nearly two billion people every year and kill an estimated 200,00 ...

Programmes to eliminate neglected tropical diseases, like river blindness and trachoma (pictured), do more than just restore health - Simon Townsley ...