Guinea worm disease is set to become the second human disease in history, after smallpox, to be eradicated. It will be the first parasitic disease to be eradicated and the first disease to be eradicated without the use of a vaccine or medicine.
Angola | Chad | Ethiopia | Mali | South Sudan
Where We Work
Learn more about the Guinea Worm Eradication Program's previous work to eliminate the disease in the following countries:
Stopped Transmission
Sudan - 2002
WHO Certified
Benin - 2009
Burkina Faso - 2011
Cameroon - 2007
Central African Republic - 2007
Cote d'lvoire - 2013
Ghana - 2015
India - 2000
Kenya - 2018
Mauritania - 2009
Niger - 2013
Nigeria - 2013
Pakistan - 1997
Senegal - 2004
Togo - 2011
Uganda - 2009
Yemen - 2004
As of December 2022, a total of 200 countries and territories have been certified by WHO to be free of Guinea worm disease.
View a World Health Organization list of all Guinea worm-free countries >>
