This press release is also available in Spanish. Onchocerciasis, river blindness or craw craw is an endemic disease in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. This pathology causes a weakening in affected ...

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 ...

Lagos State is to assess prevalence of some neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), including Lymphatic Filariasis and Onchocerciasis in 20 local governments, to treat and eliminate the diseases.

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO). The ...