The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...

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. With this ...

Niger has met the criteria for elimination of onchocerciasis, making it the fifth country in the world and the first country in Africa to be recognised by WHO as having interrupted transmission of the ...

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 ...

McNamara, embarked on a new path that would become the organization’s first foray into the health sector of developing countries. The Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP), instituted by the Bank Group ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has called for local resource mobilization and empowerment of indigenous pharmaceutical ...

For the discovery of fast-acting, highly specific anti-Wolbachia candidates for the oral treatment of human filariasis. Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and onchocerciasis (river blindness) cause ...