FOR decades, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) have lingered in the shadows of Tanzania’s public health agenda quietly ...

Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma; Guinea and Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness; and Niger became the first ...

John Kempen, MD, MPH, PhD, MHS , Director of Epidemiology for Ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, is the lead author of a ...

Press Release - The number of people requiring interventions against trachoma, the world's leading infectious cause of blindness, has fallen below 100 million for the first time since global records ...

Trachoma is the leading cause of infectious blindness in the world, with Ethiopia the most impacted country in Africa. In a ...

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 ...

I only make a monthly payment to two charities one of which, WaterAid I wrote about last week and this week I hope I can be forgiven for plugging my other favourite, Sightsavers. Did you know with a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Egypt has successfully eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, marking a historic public health milestone for the country and WHO’s Eastern ...

Egypt has become the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem, a milestone praised by global health leaders, the World Health Organization ...