The 14 reported cases in 2024 aligns with some of the lowest annual totals of human cases ever reported, following 14 cases ...

Tropical diseases primarily affect people living in or visiting tropical and subtropical regions. Such disorders are major public health issues because they are usually caused by bacteria, viruses, or ...

The European Medicines Agency’s positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminth infections ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis, is a parasitic disease that can be fatal if left untreated.It's caused by the bite of an infected tsetse fly, which is found in sub-Saharan ...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of ...

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

Press Release - The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa ...