MSF doctor urges UK action on Gaza According to reports from Médecins Sans Frontières, Dr Prudence Jarrett highlighted the UK ...

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

Trachoma infections have impaired the vision of 1.9 million people globally. This month, Ghana announced it had eliminated the disease. Here’s how.

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 Global Trachoma Mapping Project is the largest infectious disease survey in history with the aim of eliminating the disease by 2020. Following years of civil war, much of Sudan faces a lack of ...

Trachoma was once a serious public-health problem in many parts of the world. It disappeared from North America, Europe, and many other areas, not because of major control efforts, but in parallel ...

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 ...

Trachoma is a horrible disease, causing pain and discomfort. Many people with trachoma complain of itchy, watering eyes. Those with the advanced stages of trachoma often pull their own eyelashes out ...

Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. The disease induces blindness through repeated infection of the causative organism Chlamydia trachomatis, writes Dr Iain Phillips.

The scale and quality of the survey mean trachoma, an extremely painful disease which causes blindness, could be eliminated by 2020, according to the GTMP organizers - the World Health ...

It highlighted the impact of trachoma on daily life, work and personal relationships, as well as how people try desperate solutions to relieve the pain. Sightsavers has released the film following ...