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 ...

In this population, bacterial conjunctivitis is uncommon and trachoma seldom leads to blindness. During the trials and for 6 months thereafter, the children lived in a boarding-school under good ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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Local champions and stakeholders advocate alongside health promoters for improved access to treatment and prevention services ...

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 ...