In the latest episode of Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India has been declared Trachoma-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO). He also spoke in lengths about International ...

The remoteness of Australia's indigenous communities has left them vulnerable to continuous transmission for decades.

Australia has become the 30th country to eliminate trachoma, a leading infectious cause of blindness. India achieved the same ...

In a landmark public health achievement, Fiji has been validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem. Trachoma, a neglected tropical disease (NTD ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that Libya has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, a landmark victory for public health in WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region. This hard ...

World Health Organization's Regional Office for South-Fast Asia to the Government of India today. (FE.com/Sushmita Panda) The World Health Organization (WHO) has now ...

In many countries of the world including India, controlling the serious eye disease trachoma remained a challenge. However, now the eye disease called trachoma has been completely eradicated in India.

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Trachoma is an eye disease that affects millions of people worldwide, in the worst cases leaving them irreversibly blind. The good news is that, if you catch it soon enough, it’s a highly treatable.