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Onchocerciasis: an exemplary control programme
13 December 2010
In the 1960s, onchocerciasis was a major public health hazard and a serious socio-economic problem in Africa. This disease is caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a filarial worm transmitted by blackflies of the Simulium damnosum species complex, whose larvae live in fast-flowing streams and rivers. ...
African women reacting against Aids
30 November 2009
Over 33 million people in the world are living with HIV, the Aids virus, and 75% of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the people ill with the disease on that continent are women. In the Ivory Coast, the West African country most affected by the pandemic, two women are contaminated for ...
