The Acting Commissioner for Health, Sabinus Nwibo, has called for concerted efforts to eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases, ...

BACKGROUND As part of the second National Survey of Blindness and Low Vision in the Gambia carried out in 1996, all survey participants were examined for signs of trachoma. The findings were compared ...

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

The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the U.S. Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of ...

Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, Dr Faruk Umar Abubakar, has promised  that the state was now in a position to eradicate ...

The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the ...

Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.

A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has ...

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 ...

British Duchess Sophie, who is currently on a private visit to Nepal with her husband Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Beyond a halt to USAID activities, senior officials at the agency have been placed on administrative leave while Trump and ...