Salomon Kosoma, a fisherman and farmer in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is also a community ...

"It wasn't Guinea-worm disease. After receiving treatment, he was able to resume his life as a fisherman. I was very proud to have helped him." In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the elimination ...

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.

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

Between 1976 and 1989, under the umbrella of the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West ... the country was certified free of dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease) transmission in 2013.

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program in 1986, the disease was endemic in 20 African and Asian countries, with ...