River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa.

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).

Onchocerciasis is spread by infected blackflies in rural areas along rivers and lakes. [Courtesy] Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis ...

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

The National Coordinator for Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis at Niger’s Ministry of Public Health, Dr Salissou Adamou Batchiri, emphasised the profound impact of this achievement.

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