In September 2020, GLIDE partnered with The Carter Center’s Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA) (https://www.cartercenter.org/health/river_blindness/oepa.html) aimed at testing innovative technologies to reach communities on the Venezuela and Brazil border that will enable us to achieve the last mile of elimination of onchocerciasis (river blindness) in the Americas.
Since 1993, OEPA has been working with Ministries of Health and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to deliver and administer the necessary medicines to interrupt transmission and reduce the burden of this disease in local communities.