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

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

If left untreated, trichiasis can result in corneal clouding, and eventually blindness. The most common and effective ...

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

Last week, India had an achievement that nearly did not get adequate space on all media, the space it deserved, at least.

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 ...

Trachomatous trichiasis, a potentially blinding condition ... This discovery could help to improve the treatment and monitoring of this eye disease in older patients, which otherwise slowly ...

This milestone comes after years of dedicated efforts by the government to protect the vision of millions, emphasising the ...

The National Trachomatous Trichiasis (TT only ... In 2021, 69,266 people received surgical treatment for an advanced stage of the disease, and 64.6 million people were treated with antibiotics ...

Advt "They worked together with partners to ensure effective surveillance, diagnosis and management of active trachoma, provision of surgical services for trichiasis, and promotion of water ...

New Delhi: India was on Tuesday felicitated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem, making it the third country in the region after Nepal ...