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MSF doctor urges UK action on Gaza According to reports from Médecins Sans Frontières, Dr Prudence Jarrett highlighted the UK ...
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 Organisation (WHO) has listed Nigeria among the 20 countries in the African region that require trachoma elimination ...
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 Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it ...
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 ...
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 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.