Dr. Claudette Yaméogo is Burkina Faso’s only ophthalmologist who specializes in treating children. She is one of just 70 eye doctors for the West African nation's 23 million people.

On paper, Burkina Faso's government covers the cost of medications and care for children under 5, but often no drugs are available in hospitals, meaning families must buy them elsewhere.

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo, Burkina Faso's only ophthalmologist specializing in treating children, checks Isaka Diallo who has lost vision in his left eye at the Sanou Sourou University Hospital in ...

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo is Burkina Faso’s only ophthalmologist who specializes in treating children.

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo is Burkina Faso’s only ophthalmologist who specializes in treating children. She is one of just 70 eye doctors for the West African nation's 23 million people. Treating ...

For two weeks, his parents searched hospitals in western Burkina Faso for an eye doctor ... As she treated Diallo, Yaméogo noticed that the boy associated a drawing of an apple with a pepper, making ...

Luc Pagbelguem, a journalist with the private television station BF1, and Boukari Ouoba, vice-president of the Burkina ...