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- W291999867 abstract "Riverblindness-an historic scourge affecting most of sub-Saharan Africa-has been successfully attacked by a large international partnership over the last 30 years. The partnership has defeated the disease in large parts of West Africa and is making rapid progress in the remaining endemic countries in West, Central, and Eastern Africa. Before control programs began, tens of millions were infected and hundreds of thousands suffered from the worst symptom: total blindness. In all, 30 countries are infested, ranging from Senegal across to Ethiopia in the north and as far south as Angola and Malawi. With the program's success in West Africa, productive labor has increased; 600,000 cases of blindness have been prevented, and 25 million hectares of formerly evacuated arable lands have been made safe for settlement and agriculture. These lands have the potential to feed an additional 17 million people per year using indigenous technologies and methods. Increased agricultural production from these lands has transformed the region from aid-dependent to food-exporting. Eighteen million children born in the now-protected areas have been spared the risk of the disease. In West Africa, the program has achieved a 20 percent economic rate of return. Elsewhere in Africa, operations began in 1996 and have achieved a 17 percent economic rate of return while preventing blindness, and eliminating disabling itching and stigmatizing skin disease. Already, these extended operations have added over one million years of productive labor to the economies of participating countries." @default.
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- W291999867 title "West Africa - defeating riverblindness: success in scaling up and lessons learned" @default.
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