Cameroon organizes mass treatment campaign against onchocerciasis, one of the causes of blindness

Since April 1,Cameroon has been organizing, with the support of its partners, a national mass treatment campaign against onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness. This distribution campaign for Mectizan, a drug against this disease, will take place until July 30 in the ten regions of the country, indicates the Ministry of Public Health. It targets some 8 million Cameroonians, mainly children aged over 5 and adults, in 122 health districts. With the assistance of partner NGOs, around 28,000 community distributors have been mobilized to facilitate the distribution of drugs in all endemic communities, we learn. “  Cameroon has been endemic to…