The eradication of onchocerciasis – otherwise known as river blindness – in Guatemala is a tremendous achievement, but only scratches the…
Uganda is edging closer to eliminating river blindness from the country. The government announced this week that it eliminated the…
The end of Guinea worm disease is near. Only 126 cases of the debilitating disease were reported in 2014, says…
What if you could treat a poor person in Africa to cure or prevent seven horrible afflictions – river blindness, hookworm, elephantiasis, trachoma, snail fever and two other parasitic worm diseases – for only 50 cents?
This scientific finding got a little bit of media attention, but deserves more: A cheap drug, called Ivermectin (or brand…