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Onchocerciasis, the formal name for river blindness, had once been a scourge in the fertile river basins of tropical Africa.
Dennis Whittle: When Aid Works: RIP, Rene Le Berre Dennis Whittle 2010
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Onchocerciasis, the formal name for river blindness, had once been a scourge in the fertile river basins of tropical Africa.
Dennis Whittle: When Aid Works: RIP, Rene Le Berre Dennis Whittle 2010
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Onchocerciasis: The first decade of mectizan treatment.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Onchocerciasis: The first decade of mectizan treatment.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Onchocerciasis: The first decade of mectizan treatment.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Across 19 sub-Saharan African countries, the remarkable success achieved by APOC and its less extensive predecessor programme, Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP), which focused on 11 countries in West Africa, showed that Amazigo's long-term support for this strategy is not misplaced.
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"Onchocerciasis no longer turns people blind thanks to the distribution of these medicines," said Emery Patrice Bosso, of Helen
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Director of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), Dr. Uche Amazigo, has revealed how the programme intends to use community-target approach to eliminate River Blindness (onchocerciasis) in endemic African countries.
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Onchocerciasis began a five-year campaign against the disease in 2004 to provide free treatment to about 1 million people.
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Onchocerciasis is a tropical disease of the skin and underlying connective tissue caused by black flies, which breed in fast flowing rivers.
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