Watch New BBC Documentary on Neglected Tropical Diseases

The BBC has just aired a documentary film, "Distant Places, Forgotten Lives," (at right) which focuses on an ambitious national treatment program to tackle NTDs—including trachoma, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis—in Niger, West Africa.

ITI's Niger Country Representative, Samna Mohamed, is featured in this first film of an eight-part series on global health entitled "Survival."

                   
“Our communities have to be educated on the disease, on the causes of the disease, and also on the role that each of us has to play in order to avoid this blinding disease.”

               - ITI Niger Country Representative Samna Mohamed in "Distant Places, Forgotten Lives," on the challenges in eliminating trachoma in Niger

Learn more about trachoma in Niger

Learn more about the BBC "Survival" series

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