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River blindness

Blind men in Gangumi, Taraba Region, Nigeria. The village has over 30 blind elderly people. (2010)

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The Mectizan Donation Program is an international program to eliminate river blindness and lymphatic filariasis (LF), primarily funded by Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., U.S.A.,* with additional support from GSK. For LF, Mectizan® is co-administered with albendazole, which is donated by GSK. | *Merck is known as MSD outside the USA and Canada.

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