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Image provided by the International Trachoma Initiative of antibiotics being distributed in Mozambique to fight trachoma, an infectious disease that can cause ...

Gambia has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, offering hope to other African countries trying to eradicate the painful eye disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

Researchers for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the International Trachoma Initiative have calculated the human toll and economic burden of trachoma, a chronic infection that ...

Trachoma is the leading cause of infectious blindness in the world, with Ethiopia the most impacted country in Africa. In a clinical trial of more than 2,400 individuals, researchers led by Dr. John ...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced this Friday that it will expand the fight against trachoma, an eye disease that causes blindness, in Latin America thanks to the contribution from ...

The Gambia has successfully eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, becoming the third African country to be validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated the disease ...

There have been recent ads about an infectious eye disease called trachoma (trah-Ko-ma), which, worldwide, is the leading cause of preventable blindness. It is produced by certain serum variations or ...

British researchers working in an East African village say a single dose of an antibiotic appears to stop infections that cause trachoma, the world’s leading preventable cause of blindness. After ...

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, ...