Australia has become the 30th country to eliminate trachoma, a leading infectious cause of blindness. India achieved the same ...

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 ...

Trachoma is silently blinding nomadic communities in Samburu County, with a recent tour revealing just how widespread the disease has become. Many residents point to the practice of sharing living ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Australia for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem, marking a ...

WHO validation highlights long-term disease control success, with implications for global health systems, workforce ...

Nigeria and 15 other countries have been boosted with 36.5m dollars in new funding, to eliminate trachoma in their countries. Dr Joy Shu’aibu, Country Director for Sightsavers, an international ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization has confirmed Australia has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, a landmark achievement for people and ...

Queen Elizabeth II took keen interest in trachoma, an infectious blindness diseases that ravages Kenyans mostly in Kajiado County. Globally, trachoma causes blindness every 15 minutes according to the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Algeria as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the 10th country in WHO's African Region and the 29th country globally to ...

ADDIS ABABA, April 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gambia has eliminated trachoma, one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, the government has announced, after almost four decades of work ...