The Maasa are among Kenya’s pastoralist communities, particularly vulnerable to trachoma. The dusty environment they inhabit ...

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

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 drugs for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and ...

The Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology (TIO), in partnership with The Fred Hollows Foundation, has officially inaugurated ...

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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 ...

2 Trachoma, caused by infection of the conjunctiva (upper inner eyelid) by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) prevalent primarily in areas with poor sanitation.

Most people have heard the term upper respiratory infection. It is often used interchangeably when describing a respiratory virus or the common cold. But do you know what a lower respiratory infection ...

The symptoms of Candida infection depend on what part of the body it affects. The most frequent symptoms of the most common forms of a Candida infection include thrush, yeast infection, digestive ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

Long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment reduces the risk for potentially vision-damaging bouts of inflammation and infection ... moved closer to eliminating trachoma this month after the World ...