Health Promotion and Education Directorate under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, in collaboration with National Eye Care Programme ,over the weekend launched the Trachoma ...

World Health Organization's Regional Office for South-Fast Asia to the Government of India today. (FE.com/Sushmita Panda) The World Health Organization (WHO) has now ...

Trachoma is a neglected tropical disease that is caused by infection by the Chlamydia trachomatis bacterium. The disease, if left untreated can result in irreversible blindness. “The Regional Office ...

A European non-profit is launching new efforts to combat blindness in three African countries where some of the world’s highest rates of trachoma are found. As part of their global strategy to ...

India has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed. Trachoma, one of the leading causes of blindness globally, has long been a public health ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On October 12, 2024, an incident at Trichy Airport involving an aircraft malfunction kept the aircraft circling in the skies for hours. The pilots’ efforts to safely land the plane, preventing ...

The World Health Organisation has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The WHO, which disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, noted that the validation makes ...

Trachoma is an infection of the eyes by Chlamydia trachomatis and is the leading cause of preventable blindness. Although the control over trachoma is very well in developed nations, in overcrowded ...

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