🇬🇭 Ghana has achieved significant progress, having eliminated #GuineaWormDisease, #trachoma, and #SleepingSickness. They're now using the Kigali Declaration Commitment Tracker to tackle other prevalent NTDs

Ghana's progress in the fight against #NTDs is inspiring! 🇬🇭 Having already eliminated #GuineaWormDisease, #trachoma, and #SleepingSickness, they're using the Commitment Tracker to tackle other prevalent NTDs. Celebrate 3 years of the #KigaliDeclaration: bit.ly/4ndlkkC

Guinea worm disease cases halved in 2024 to date In 1980, smallpox was declared eradicated from the planet, with the last known natural case of smallpox reported in Somalia in 1977.

#Guineawormdisease cases halved in 2024 to date #parasites #Africa
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Nice Time: Jimmy Carter Lives To Defeat The Guinea Worm! (Wonkette) TRIGGER WARNING: Contains disgusting descriptions of the nasty-ass Guinea Worm, though no photos. Do not Google the photos. … So this is very nice, form...

❤️ #JimmyCarter! So this is very nice, former President Jimmy Carter — who is still alive and 99 years young, though in hospice — has succeeded in his decades-long goal to get #GuineaWormDisease cases down to zero before he dies. (Warning, the picture at that link is disgusting.)