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 ...

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 ...

The world moved closer to eliminating trachoma this month after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed India and Pakistan as being free of the disease, a leading cause of blindness.

WHO has validated India as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness globally WHO has validated India as having eliminated ...

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 ...