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 ...

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

Trachoma is listed by the World Health Organization ... About 3,600,000 people are in need of antibiotic treatment in Kenya and Tanzania as the prevalence is at six percent in the two nations ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) this month certified that India has eliminated trachoma, an infectious disease that can ...

Trachoma, eliminated in Europe and North America in the 1950s, thanks to improved hygiene conditions, continues to plague communities in poorer countries, where crowding is common and access to clean ...

In 1963, the government launched the National Trachoma Control Programme that focused on surgical treatment; antibiotic distribution; facial cleanliness to promote hygiene and reduce transmission ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has felicitated the Indian government for eliminati ng a serious bacterial infection, ...

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 ...

In 2023, according to WHO, 13,746 people received surgical treatment for advanced trachoma – known as trachomatous trichiasis – and 32.9 people were treated with antibiotics. Community-wide ...

This comprised of community-based interventions to eliminate trachoma including surgical treatment, topical antibiotic treatment, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) initiatives, along with ...