Bodadiougou village, Banfora, Cascades Region, Burkina Faso, 4th December 2016; A Community Drug Distributor with a log of the village beneficiaries. This is part of the MDA programme using CTDI to prevent River Blindness in the region.

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Bodadiougou village, Banfora, Cascades Region, Burkina Faso, 4th December 2016; A Community Drug Distributor with a log of the village beneficiaries. This is part of a programme by Sightsavers to prevent River Blindness in the blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a parasitic infection spread by flies that live near fast-flowing rivers. It causes severe skin irritation, itching and, eventually, irreversible blindness.

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Location: Cascades Region, Burkina Faso
Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
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