This man being led through a village in Upper Volta is blind as a result of river blindness - onchocerciasis - and nearly 60 per cent of the people in his village suffer from this disease
A blind man holding one end of a stick is being led through a village by a young boy holding the other end of the stick; village huts are in the background. Verso: WHO/17085. AFRO. Onchocerciasis. SM 2.3-1976.
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