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

The World Health Organization has recommended repeat mass drug administration as part of their global initiative to eliminate blinding trachoma by the year 2020. The efficacy of repeat treatment ...

Trachoma, a bacterial eye infection, was a leading cause of blindness among Indians in the late 1990s. According to the World ...

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 ...

India has been felicitated to have successfully eliminated trachoma, a major cause of blindness, as public health concern.

Trachoma’s impact, through blindness and visual impairment, results in an estimated economic loss of $2.9 to 5.3 billion annually due to reduced productivity. Trachoma, a chronic infectious eye ...

For more information view our media page and republishing guidelines. The full article is available here as HTML. [NEW DELHI] The world moved closer to eliminating trachoma this month after the World ...

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 ...

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