Ghana adopts strategies to eradicate guinea worm disease by 2013 Nov 5, 2009
Nkoranza, (B/A) Nov 4, GNA - The Ghana Health Service is determined to eradicate the guinea worm disease in the country by the year 2013, Mr. Bernard Acheampong, Nkoranza South District Disease Control Officer, has said, at Nkoranza. Speaking at a capacity building workshop on Guinea Worm Eradication, attended by 32 health workers, Mr. Acheampong said the necessary strategies had been designed towards the achievement of this goal. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Opinion: A Kenyan's View of Juba Oct 8, 2009
There is no vaccine or medicine to treat or prevent Guinea worm disease. Once a Guinea worm emerges a person must wrap the live worm around a piece of gauze or a stick to extract it from the body. (allAfrica.com)
Science Fair Aug 29, 2009
A 20-year fight to eradicate guinea worm disease, or dracunculiasis, is in the last, and most difficult stages. It could be the first parasitic disease eradicated, and only the second disease to be eradicated in the world, since smallpox in 1979. (USA Today -- Tech)
New book explores eradication of smallpox Jun 1, 2009
Scientists said that although a handful of diseases may be eradicated in the next few years -- such as polio and guinea worm disease -- global strife and lack of world cooperation have delayed further successes. Former WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment David Heymann said the conflict in southern Sudan, a location where guinea worms thrive, has prevented eradication in the region. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
African Health Leaders Visit the U.S. to Keep Regional Health Issues On the Advocacy and Policy Agenda Apr 29, 2009
At the awards reception, hosted by GHP and global advocacy group ONE, the center was given particular recognition for its work in all but eradicating guinea worm disease ... The Carter Center, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the British Government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the governments of affected countries, recently launched its final push to completely eradicate guinea worm disease globally. (allAfrica.com)
