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Welcome
to Programme Onchocercoses. Our research network is based on more than 35 years of successful partnership of research institutes in Germany and our partners based in Cameroon.
Onchocerciasis is a parasitic disease with an insect vector that breeds in water. It is the world’s second leading infectious cause of blindness.
Background
Programme Onchocercoses began over 35 years ago in cooperation with African colleagues in Cameroon. Our local fieldstations and bush-laboratories were often far away from the main towns, in close neighbourhood to the villages, where where onchocerciasis is endemic. Riverblindness is rightly called the disease ‘at the end of the road’, but this road also lead us to villages where life was and is still going on in the old traditional way.
Partnership
Support
Programme Onchocercoses is funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation)
