Blackfly in test tube, Bobo-Dioulasso, Upper Volta (182388). A common parasitical disease spread by a species of blackfly, onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, can cause vision changes or ...

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

River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a devastating disease that has raised public health concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Yemen. The name “river blindness” originates from ...

The debilitating parasitic disease, onchocerciasis, is all but vanquished in one corner of Sudan, thanks to a community-wide health effort. NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced immense backlash ...

River blindness and the black flies that cause it torment millions in west Africa. The “slash and clear” method is an effective way to eliminate them at source.

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 fifth ...

Closing down this program risks pushing people back into lives of disease and misery.” Another tropical eye disease, Onchocerciasis, which is known as river blindness, is also at risk of spreading in ...

The WHO’s verification is the culmination of nearly fifty years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness. According to a press release by The End Fund and Reaching ...

Today, Africa Daily’s Mpho Lakaje focuses on Zimbabwe, one of several southern African countries recently hit by a prolonged drought. Seven million people are now desperate for food assistance.