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

The World Health Organisation has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The WHO, which ...

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

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed Nigeria among the 20 countries in the African region that require trachoma elimination ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the eighth country in WHO’s African Region to reach this important ...

Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world today. Long ago eliminated in North America and Europe, the disease is almost unknown, and indeed forgotten, in the West.

Objectives: Trachoma is the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide. It is known to be highly correlated with poverty, limited access to healthcare services and water. In 2003, the WHO ...

Trachoma was not always so little known. It was once an exclusion criterion at Ellis Island for those wishing to immigrate into the United States (see photo).The sadness caused by such exclusions ...

I have trekked in the Sudd swamps of southern Sudan, visited the plains of central Tanzania, and hiked in the Ethiopian highlands of Amhara looking for trachoma. Of these trachoma-hyperendemic ...