NewsDesk @bactiman63 On Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Iraq had eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Iraq established its national trachoma programme in 2012 to coordinate...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The World Health Organization announced last month that The West African country of Benin has eliminated the neglected tropical disease, trachoma as a public health problem. Benin...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Mali has become the 17th country to receive the World Health Organization’s validation of the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. The Carter Center, Helen...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The West African country of Benin has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. This contagious bacterial infection, which...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that they have validated Malawi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. “Malawi’s achievement is life-changing...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Yesterday, January 30 was World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day is a day to promote awareness of and secure resources for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)–a diverse...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Myanmar has eliminated the blinding bacterial disease, trachoma, according to an announcement by the World Health Organization. “Myanmar’s multi-pronged approach...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) validated China as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. China began implementing mass trachoma control...

Antibiotics to treat the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness have been delivered to nearly 300,000 people in Egypt.  It was the first mass drug administration (MDA) of its kind in the country...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week that great progress has occurred in the battle against the bacterial neglected tropical disease, trachoma....