Africa - Voice of America: River Blindness Spread Believed Stopped Sudan Area

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River Blindness Spread Believed Stopped Sudan Area May 20th 2012, 22:10 When the government of Sudan decided to ramp up efforts to eradicate river blindness, they looked to the nation's women. This month the country's Ministry of Health announced the strategy appears to have worked in at least one region, Abu Hamad. The key innovation to eliminating the disease was when the government decided to include women and families in distributing drug treatments, said partner aid agency The Carter Center. When the new program was introduced in 2006, 100 percent of the ... Media files: 16975F91-D577-44C8-A85D-2E98036134E5_cx0_cy10_cw0_w800_r1.JPG (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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