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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Egypt has just officially reached the point of being free of trachoma as a public health problem. This is a significant milestone in the country’s public health system. This was announced by the World ...

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, ...

Around 2018, Diango Tounkara started having trouble seeing at night. "I didn't know what was wrong," she says in Bambara, a language spoken in her native Mali. "It was getting worse and worse by the ...

Trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness globally, continues to threaten millions, particularly in low-resource ...

Trachoma prevalence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) children in at-risk communities continues to fall, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and ...