The good news

• Control of river blindness (onchocerciasis), an incapacitating disease transmitted by the bite of a small fly, has protected more than 34 million people and opened up 25 million hectares of land for agricultural production.
  

• Guinea-worm disease (dracunculiasis), a crippling water-borne disease which has afflicted parts of Africa and Latin America for centuries, is close to eradication.
  

• Sleeping sickness, spread by the tsetse fly, may soon cease to be a public health problem.
  
  

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