Trachomatous trichiasis, a potentially blinding condition where inward-turned eyelashes scratch the front of the eye, can successfully be treated by either of the two most common types of eyelid ...

The achievement marked a significant public health victory and had profound economic implications. Trachoma’s impact, through ...

India eliminates trachoma as a public health problem, joining Nepal and Myanmar, thanks to strong leadership and ...

The World Health Organization in its latest report has said that at least 2.2 billion people worldwide have vision impairment ...

Trachoma is a highly contagious bacterial infection that has been a major cause of preventable blindness worldwide ...

Munazza Gillani, Pakistan and Middle East director for Sightsavers, a UK-based charity that works to treat and prevent ...

The World Health Organization has recommended repeat mass drug administration as part of their global initiative to eliminate blinding trachoma by the year 2020. The efficacy of repeat treatment ...

That was because it kept coming back and infecting communities. According to Dr Vashist, trachoma was one of the major causes ...

Objective About 90% of eye health problems are preventable or curable with existing cost-effective interventions. There is ...

Figure 2 provides a birds-eye view of the current and future trends in the management of severe OSD. Current management may not completely restore the functions and structure of the ocular surface ...

Sep. 30, 2024 — It has been estimated that nearly 300 million people, or about 4% of the global population, are afflicted by some form of depression. But detecting it can be difficult ...