In the dusty deserts of North Africa, the impoverished villages of the Middle East, and the crowded river valleys of the Indus and Ganges in India and the Yellow River in China, children once faced a ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday (11th of July) announced that Burundi had effectively eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. With this development, the East-African country ...

Image provided by the International Trachoma Initiative of antibiotics being distributed in Mozambique to fight trachoma, an infectious disease that can cause ...

WHO has validated El Salvador for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem, making it the first country in Central ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated El Salvador as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem.

On Christmas Eve 2024, ophthalmologist Hugh Taylor, MD, received a present that wasn’t under the tree wrapped in paper — it was delivered by email. The message brought news that Australia had ...

In a landmark public health achievement, Fiji has been validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem. Trachoma, a neglected tropical disease (NTD ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Surveyors were taken hostage in Yemen, accused of being representatives of Dracula in Papua New Guinea, worked in sandstorms and temperatures of 50 degrees ...

The validation followed a detailed multi-year review in which WHO examined whether trachoma remained a public health concern ...

The eye disease is active in children at the age of one year and resurfaces at older ages, according to eye specialists. [File, Standard] Trachoma remains a neglected tropical disease in Kenya, ...

Pfizer on Thursday said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation program aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blinding or visually impairing nearly two million people ...