River blindness: a devastating yet neglected tropical disease in Africa

Affiliations

• ¹ Healthy Africans Platform, Research and Development, Ibadan, Nigeria.
• ² Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
• ³ Department of medicine, New Giza University, Giza, Egypt.
• ⁴ Department of medical biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Dentistry, New Giza University, Giza, Egypt.
• ⁶ Medical College, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• ⁸ College of Health and Allied Sciences, Department of Adult Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
• ⁹ Department of Research, Medical Research Circle (MedReC), Bukavu, DR Congo.
• ¹⁰ Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DR Congo.
• ¹¹ College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United State of America.
• ¹² Faculty of medicine, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
• ¹³ Clinical Research Department, Rinda Ubuzima Research Organization, Kigali, Rwanda.
• ¹⁴ Faculty of medicine, Evangelic University in Africa, Bukavu, DR Congo.
• ¹⁵ Faculty of medicine, La Sapientia Catholic University, Goma, DR Congo.
• ¹⁶ International Veterinary Vaccinology Network, The Roslin Institute University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁷ Global Schistosomiasis Alliance (GSA), London, United Kingdom.