Figure 3: Simulations of the time course of active trachoma infection (in children 1–10 years old) with repeated mass drug administration. We also used the model to estimate the necessary ...

ast month, Pakistan eliminated the eye disease trachoma as a public health problem. This achievement means around 3.7 million ...

Strong public health and community support has helped India to be free from trachoma -- a highly contagious bacterial infection that has been a major cause of preventable blindness worldwide ...

The full article is available here as HTML. [NEW DELHI] The world moved closer to eliminating trachoma this month after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed India and Pakistan as being free ...

GHIT Fund announces approx. USD 4.0 mn investment in four projects to develop new diagnostics and drugs for NTDs and malaria: Tokyo, Japan Friday, November 8, 2024, 09:00 Hrs [IST ...

RTI International congratulates Vietnam in eliminating trachoma – a painful disease impacting the lives of millions of people around the world Trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness ...

Caleb Mpyet, trachoma specialist and technical adviser to Sightsavers, says international cooperation is needed to see an end to the disease. “Infectious diseases do not respect borders,” he says.

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund announced today a total investment of approximately JPY 578 million (USD 4.0 million1) in four projects for the development of new diagnostics and ...

On October 12, 2024, an incident at Trichy Airport involving an aircraft malfunction kept the aircraft circling in the skies for hours. The pilots’ efforts to safely land the plane, preventing ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on October 21 that Vietnam has eliminated trachoma, a contagious, bacterial disease that may eventually lead to blindness.