AFRICA: New plan announced to wipe out river blindness
20.12.2001
The World Bank, USAID and African governments have pledged US $39 million for an initiative to wipe out onchocerciasis - river blindness - in Africa by 2010, according to the World Bank. The initiative is based on the "highly successful" West African Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP), begun in 1974, the World Bank said in a statement on Friday.