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Updates on Onchocerciasis: Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

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6 By 2030, it is estimated that Nigeria followed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan will have the greatest disease burden. The burden of skin disease and eye disease due to onchocerciasis in countries formerly under the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control mandate for 1990, 2020, and 2030. Ramos AN, ed.

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A Practical Approach to HIV/AIDS: Part 1

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13 The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) set targets for ending the HIV pandemic by 2030. link] Jung AC, Paauw DS. Epidemiology Since the start of the epidemic in the 1980s, HIV has killed over 40 million people globally, with the highest number being in Sub-Saharan Africa. 13 Globally, 39.9 million (36.1 J Clin Invest.

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