U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected ...

Niger became the first African country ... culmination of nearly fifty years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness. According to a press release by The End ...

The Gambia River Development ... initiative is the West African Power Pool (WAPP), which is helping boost energy electricity supply in 14 countries, benefiting 57 percent (more than 244 million people ...

Covering almost 490,000 square miles, Niger is the largest landlocked country in West Africa and the second largest ... corner along the namesake Niger River. As a whole, Niger’s infrastructure ...

The WHO’s verification is the culmination of nearly 50 years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness. RLMF partnered with Niger’s Ministry of Health to collect and file ...

Before control programs began, the disease affected up to 50 percent of adults in some West ... for river blindness. RLMF aims to eliminate the disease entirely in Africa and Yemen by 2030, expanding ...

The achievement, which has been verified by the World Health Organisation (WHO), was made possible in part through the support of the Reaching the Last Mile Fund (RLMF), a multi-donor fund established ...

The WHO’s verification is the culmination of nearly 50 years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness. RLMF partnered with Niger’s Ministry of Health to collect ...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness ... umbrella of the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP), Niger undertook vector control measures by spraying insecticides ...

When the Logone Birni river overflowed its banks following days ... displaced people and host community members in Cameroon, Niger and the other affected countries in West and Central Africa. But for ...