Dracunculiasis--the saddle is virtually ended.

[dracunculiasis]

Dracunculiasis is a preventable parasitic disease that for many years has affected poor communities without a safe portable water supply . Transmission is basically limited among the nomadic in remote rural settings . Most countries , including Asia , are declared free from the Guinea worm disease restraining the burden of transmission to Africa especially Sudan , Ghana , Mali , Nigeria and Niger . This review focuses mainly on the progress made so far by the Global Guinea Worm Eradication Programme championed by the Carter Center , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , World Health Organisation , The United Nations Children 's Fund and the individual efforts of endemic nations through their National Guinea Worm Eradication Programme aimed towards total global Guinea worm eradication .