Onchocerciasis

• Health: Conditions and Illness: Infectious Diseases: Vector Borne 

• CDC: Parasites - Onchocerciasis  - Overview of the disease with information on diagnosis, epidemiology, risk factors, prevention, and control.
• Global Partnership to Eliminate Riverblindness  - Program overview, information about the riverblindness disease, contacts, and related news and events.
• Mectizan Donation Program  - Initiative aimed at alleviating the suffering caused by river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Presents news, publications, and details on application review process.
• Onchocerciasis  - Introduction to the disease and information about infection, immuno-suppression, infection rate, nodules, diagnosis, and disease life cycle.
• OnchoNET  - Onchocerciasis information repository on the web. Provides research tools and materials, newsletters, listing of researchers, and related links.
• Programme Onchocercoses  - Aims to improve the understanding of fundamental mechanisms behind host-parasite interaction, pathogenesis, and population biology of filarial parasites.
• United Front Against Riverblindness (UFAR)  - Nonprofit charitable organization partnering with other organizations in eradicating incidences of onchocerciasis, a major public health problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo.