The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday (11th of July) announced that Burundi had effectively eliminated trachoma as a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially announced that Burundi has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, marking a major milestone in the country's fight against neglected ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it ...

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

John A. Hovanesian Trachoma is a disease of poverty and has affected an estimated 41 million people around the world, causing irreversible visual loss or blindness in about 10 million.

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 ...

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.