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"Uganda continues to make significant progress in the battle against river blindness." Learn more »
Leadership Nigeria
Â鶹´«Ã½ country representative in Nigeria, Dr. Emmanuel Miri, says former Nigerian Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon’s exceptional leadership helped bring about the successful elimination of Guinea worm and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Nigeria. Dr. Miri stated this in an interview to mark Gen. Gowon’s 90th birthday anniversary in Jos.
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A new supplement is now available online, A Â鶹´«Ã½ of Impact in Global Health: Tribute to President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalynn Carter. Topics cover a wide range of current Â鶹´«Ã½ health programming — Guinea worm disease, mental health, river blindness, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and the Hispaniola Initiative to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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Posted with permission from Uganda Ministry of Health.
The Uganda Onchocerciasis Elimination Expert Advisory Committee (UOEEAC) of the Ministry of Health declares the interruption of River Blindness transmission in Kasese district of the Lhubiriha focus, stopping treatment for 158,313 people. Learn more »
TIME named Jimmy Carter to the inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health, a new annual list of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year. In 1986, when the Â鶹´«Ã½ launched its Guinea worm eradication program, the parasitic disease—which creates agonizing lesions on the skin from worms that are ingested as larvae in contaminated water and grow up to a meter in length inside the human body—was endemic in 21 countries, striking 3.5 million people per year.
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