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Nigeria interrupts River Blindness in Abia, Anambra, Enugu, and Imo states

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Carter Center congratulated the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health for stopping river blindness transmission in four of the country’s 36 states, protecting 18.9 million people...

Uganda: Budongo and Bwindi declared free of river blindness

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Uganda Ministry of Health has declared the Budongo (Masindi, Hoima, Buliisa) and Bwindi (Kisoro, Rubanda, Kanungu) foci as free of river blindness transmission and reclassified...

Elimination of transmission of onchocerciasis, or river blindness in Niger

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NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews It was announced last Thursday at Expo 2020 Dubai that Niger is preparing the requisite paperwork for WHO verification and pending certification, and the country is now...

Ivermectin credited with eliminating river blindness in Plateau and Nasarawa states in Nigeria

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews New data indicate that mass treatment with ivermectin—a drug that was a workhorse of tropical medicine long before it emerged as a controversial COVID-19 treatment—has...

River Blindness in the Americas, Lymphatic Filariasis and Malaria on Hispaniola elimination effort: Carter Center’s new partnership

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The Carter Center and The Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) announced an exciting new partnership to support the Carter Center’s innovative disease elimination efforts in the Americas. GLIDE,...

River blindness: First known, successful coordinated cross-border mass drug administration effort

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Pathogens don’t pay attention to international borders, with transmission and endemic areas often stretching between countries. In the new work, Moses Katabarwa of the Carter Center, USA, and colleagues...

Neglected tropical diseases: Researchers highlight expanded benefits and impact of preventive chemotherapy

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Almost 15 years after first proposing programs of mass drug administration – now referred to by the World Health Organization as ‘preventive chemotherapy’ – to treat or prevent seven neglected...

River blindness: Scripps Research scientists develop non-invasive urine test

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Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a urine diagnostic to detect the parasitic worms that cause river blindness, also called onchocerciasis, a tropical disease that afflicts 18 to 120 million...

Cross-border transmissions from DRC, South Sudan stall Ugandan bid to eliminate river blindness

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The Ugandan government says effort to eliminate river blindness (onchocerciasis) have suffered setbacks from recurrent cross-border transmissions from neighboring South Sudan and the Democratic Republic...

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) haunt Nigeria

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has scaled up support to help the Nigerian government eliminate over 20 Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that remain endemic in the country. The projects are meant...