The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the efforts of Niger, a country in West Africa, in eliminating onchocerciasis-- also known as 'river blindness' -- a parasitic disease caused by a ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: WWF is joining with local and international partners to save Africa's third longest river. West Africa's Niger river connects four ecoregions of outstanding importance and some ...

Senegal stopped treatment in ... therefore higher wages in their lifetimes. “Niger is a country rich in natural resources but, for decades, river blindness prevented its people from being ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis — also known as river blindness — and the fifth worldwide, according to WHO.

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. Niger is “the ...