The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...
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WHO Recognises Niger As The First African Country To Eliminate Infectious Parasitic Disease OnchocerciasisNiger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...
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Niger becomes first African nation to eliminate river blindnessThe economic benefits of eliminating river blindness in Niger are estimated at $2.3 billion, with 17.8 billion additional ...
Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...
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WHO Verifies Niger As the First Country in the African Region to Eliminate Onchocerciasis [press release]The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be ...
In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...
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.
Jan. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On 30 January 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Niger has been verified for eliminating the transmission of onchocerciasis, commonly known ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be ...
NIAMEY, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Niger's Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs Garba Hakimi officially declared at a ceremony on Thursday that the country is free of onchocerciasis.
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