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| | WHO | African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | APOC is a bigger partnership programme than OCP including 19 Participating Countries with effective and active involvement of the Ministries of Health and their affected communities, several international and local NGDOs, the private sector (Merck & Co., Inc.), donor countries and UN agencies. |
 | | After just 8 years of operations, APOC has established 107 projects, which in 2003 treated 34 million people in 16 countries. |
 | | APOC countries: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. |
| www.who.int /pbd/blindness/onchocerciasis/apoc/en (272 words) |
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