Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is aiding efforts by Washington University researchers to eliminate river blindness and elephantiasis, parasitic worm diseases common in parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Joshua Bogus (lower left), global health research project manager for the university’s team, meets with residents of a study site in Ivory Coast.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at eliminating river blindness and elephantiasis, two neglected tropical diseases that annually sicken millions.
Read the full story in The Source: $7 million grant aids efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases