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Hundreds of thousands of doses of moxidectin – which treats a disease caused by a parasitic worm – are being given to ...

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

Kebbi State Commissioner for Health, ismail Yunusa has expressed that river blindness which was endemic in nine local government areas in the state have been completely eradicated.Similarly, only two ...

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H.H. Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Development and Fallen ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

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.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has congratulated Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be ...

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