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

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

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 ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 full article is available here as HTML. [NEW DELHI] The world moved closer to eliminating trachoma this month after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed India and Pakistan as being free ...

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 ...

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