Meanings of river blindness in English

He was also involved in a campaign to eliminate river blindness in West Africa.

Since 2009 the WHO's focus on river blindness has shifted from treatment to elimination.

The eye disease is also known as river blindness.

Filariae cause diseases including: lymphatic filariasis with distressing and disturbing symptoms like elephantiasis; and river blindness.

Some of those diseases-likepolio, Guinea worm, and river blindness-currentlycause only a handful of cases.

But he thinks that the versatile drug will be used to treat many cases of river blindness.

NTDs, like river blindness and elephantiasis, affect one billion people and kill a half million every year.

Onchocerciasis or river blindness is a neglected parasitic disease causing severe dermatitis and visual impairment, predominantly in Africa.

Parasitic worms affect a third of the world's population and cause a number of illnesses, including river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.

They were infected with diseases like hepatitis and ' river blindness' to help scientists develop vaccines to be used on sick humans.

To treat river blindness, people are generally prescribed a 3mg tablet for every 15 kilograms of bodyweight.

The active ingredient, avermectin, went on to become a drug known as ivermectin which is now used to treat river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.

The drug was first used against parasites in animals, and was later applied with great success in humans to treat river blindness and related diseases.

That altruism has hugely helped to combat onchocerciasis -aka river blindness -lymphatic filariasis and other parasitic diseases in Africa, Latin America and Yemen.

Those suffering from the 17 diseases, such as intestinal worms, river blindness, leprosy and sleeping sickness include many of the poorest people in the world.

The campaign against Guinea worm has been going since 1980; polio, since 1988; river blindness, in the Americas, since 1992.