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Impact of WASH factors on trachoma prevalence
4 December 2024
| Nishita Patel
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EYE - Cornea
Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness globally. Following a national population-based trachoma survey in Malawi, one round of azithromycin mass drug elimination (MDA) was carried out successfully – that is, the prevalence of trachomatous inflammation, follicular (TF) in...
How do you solve the problem of trachoma in Ethiopia?
4 October 2023
| Alemayehu Sisay
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EYE - Cornea
Background Trachoma is one of the oldest diseases known to humankind and the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. Spread by the bacterium chlamydia trachomatis, it is transmitted through contact with the eyes, eyelids and nose of those infected. The...
Medical and eye health teams defy odds to deliver treatments for trachoma in Ethiopia, but millions worldwide risk return of disease amid UK aid cuts
27 January 2022
Ophthalmologists, nurses, and eye health workers in Ethiopia defied the odds to treat millions with trachoma-fighting antibiotics and surgeries - despite cuts to UK Aid assistance threatening eye care. This World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day Orbis, the international eye care...
Global health milestone as Pakistan becomes 19th country to eliminate blinding trachoma
25 October 2024
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international, WHO, trachoma, global, disease, blindness, charity, Pakistan, SightSavers
Sightsavers commends Pakistan following the World Health Organization (WHO) announcement that it has become the nineteenth country to eliminate blinding trachoma as a public health problem. This phenomenal achievement means around 3.7 million people [1] in Pakistan are no longer...
Orbis marks 100-millionth antibiotic dose in the fight against trachoma in Ethiopia
Orbis and partners mark historic 100-millionth dose of azithromycin antibiotics in the fight to eliminate blinding trachoma in Ethiopia by 2030. This milestone was achieved 20 years after Orbis began leading mass drug administrations.The Qatar Fund for Development and Orbis to Launch Qatar Creating Vision in Ethiopia
8 April 2022
The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) are providing funding to international eye care charity Orbis, to launch the Qatar Creating Vision initiative Ethiopia.
Task shifting for eye care in Eastern Africa
More than eight million people suffer with trichiasis due to trachoma globally, but less than 160,000 receive surgery per year even though “S” is a key aspect of the elimination of blindness due to trachoma as part of the WHO...Understanding the inequalities of ophthalmic care for Indigenous people in a first world country
Aboriginal Australians have faced numerous challenges over the past centuries. Here in this article, Edward Saxton highlights why there are inequalities of ophthalmic care in Australia and why this has led to increased levels of blindness in Aboriginal people relative...Part 1: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh Visits Ethiopia with Orbis
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh, visited services protecting the vision of children and adults in Hawassa, Ethiopia, with international eyecare charity Orbis.Sight Scotland awarded contract to help improve education services for visually impaired young people in West Lothian
School pupils in West Lothian are set to benefit from a new and improved education support service.IN FOCUS - Prevention and treatment of blindness worldwide: the story of ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’
1 April 2020
| Hannah Faal
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EYE - General
The story of blindness and efforts to prevent and treat it cannot be told without going back to the earliest recorded history of blindness. Trachoma was described in ancient Egypt, cataract surgery in India about the fifth century BC and...
