Trachoma, an infectious eye disease and once a leading cause of blindness, is declining worldwide. Explore how it spreads, its long history, and how global efforts are working to end it.

Image provided by the International Trachoma Initiative of antibiotics being distributed in Mozambique to fight trachoma, an infectious disease that can cause ...

The eye disease is active in children at the age of one year and resurfaces at older ages, according to eye specialists. [File, Standard] Trachoma remains a neglected tropical disease in Kenya, ...

Sheka is the second area where Orbis, alongside partner organisations, have achieved the WHO elimination threshold for trachoma ...

Researchers for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the International Trachoma Initiative have calculated the human toll and economic burden of trachoma, a chronic infection that ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal becomes the ninth country in WHO's African Region to have achieved this feat ...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced this Friday that it will expand the fight against trachoma, an eye disease that causes blindness, in Latin America thanks to the contribution from ...

The Gambia has successfully eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, becoming the third African country to be validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated the disease ...

British researchers working in an East African village say a single dose of an antibiotic appears to stop infections that cause trachoma, the world’s leading preventable cause of blindness. After ...