A formal eradication program would begin in 1983. UNICEF developed a multipart strategy to fight Guinea worm, beginning with a rapid increase in boreholes and improving access to safe water in ...

Salomon Kosoma, a fisherman and farmer in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is also a community mobilizer with a strong commitment to the prevention and control of Guinea-worm ...

The Carter Center said Wednesday there were just 14 cases in 2021, down from 3.5 million in 1986 when the eradication campaign began.

Such collaboration is pivotal in overcoming obstacles and achieving the complete eradication of dracunculiasis in Angola. During the meetings and community dialogue, crucial topics will be addressed, ...

The world is on the brink of a public health triumph as it closes in on eradicating Guinea worm disease. There were more than 3.5 million cases of this disease in the 1980s, but according to the ...

Journal reference: Hopkins DR, Weiss AJ, Yerian S, Sapp SG, Cama VA. Progress Toward Eradication of Dracunculiasis — Worldwide, January 2022–June 2023.

Former President Jimmy Carter has worked to help eradicate guinea worm disease, also known as dracunculiasis, since the '80s.

Eradication is a high bar. In its entire almost 75-year history, the World Health Organization has certified only two diseases as totally eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.

Dracunculiasis is one of the three diseases targeted by the WHO for global eradication, together with yaws (another neglected tropical disease) and poliomyelitis.

Dracunculiasis is one of the three diseases targeted by WHO for global eradication, together with yaws (another neglected tropical disease) and poliomyelitis.

Other diseases, such as polio and the parasitic disease dracunculiasis teeter on the edge of eradication—two of the three strains of wild poliovirus have been eradicated, with the third ...