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Normally, when we think of blindness, we tend to think of cataracts, glaucoma, or retinal diseases. There is another one, less spoken of but just as disabling, that starts with something as harmless ...

Mass treatment of children is more cost-effective than targeted household treatment, and at least as effective in reducing the incidence of trachoma, according to study results published recently in ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

Imagine waking up to a world without colours, the vibrant hues of a sunset or the vivid beauty of a blooming flower. This heart-wrenching reality is faced by millions around the world affected by ...

Trachoma, a chronic bacterial keratoconjunctivitis, has always been inextricably linked with poverty. It would not even be mentioned in the curricula of many U.S. medical schools today if not for its ...

The history and the evolution of our understanding of trachoma is important as it contains many clues that are relevant to today's efforts to finally eliminate this ancient blinding disease. Trachoma ...

Trachoma, a leading cause of preventable blindness globally, disappeared from developed countries last century, with one exception: Australia. Plenty of developing nations have eliminated this ...