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Simón Bolívar Amazon Center for Research and Control of Tropical Diseases

Overcoming the Odds: Venezuela’s Onchocerciasis Elimination Program

December 14, 2023

Despite Venezuela’s ongoing economic and humanitarian crisis, the country’s onchocerciasis (river blindness) elimination program continues working effectively in the Amazon rainforest.

Categories Angel Sightings Tags Onchocerciasis, Simón Bolívar Amazon Center for Research and Control of Tropical Diseases, The Carter Center, Venezuela

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