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Guinea Worm on Brink of Eradication in Sudan

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East Africa: Access to Water
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In much of the developing world, women spend more time fetching water than any other activity in...

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Decades of civil war in southern Sudan has have hindered the population's access to clean water and allowed some parasites to persist. But international efforts have made headway on one particular scourge: the guinea worm. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Sudan.

The piece aired on PBS NewsHour April 7, 2010.

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