https://www.sightsavers.org/eye-conditions/trachoma/journey-of-the-treatment/
Jul 30, 2025 - Learn how your donation travels thousands of miles to protect remote communities from trachoma, a painful and potentially blinding disease.
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https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-wer9928-363-380
This report summarizes application of the SAFE strategy against trachoma during 2023. It includes estimates of the global population at risk of trachoma...
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https://www.sightsavers.org/eye-conditions/trachoma/history-of-trachoma/
Oct 3, 2025 - Trachoma is one of the world’s oldest recorded diseases: evidence suggests it has been around for more than 10,000 years. Our timeline tracks the disease...
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https://www.sightsaversusa.org/programmes/safe-trachoma-control/
May 14, 2025 - The SAFE programme, which ended in 2019, aimed to control the spread of blinding trachoma via surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and environmental...
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https://www.sightsaversusa.org/programmes/accelerate/
Aug 7, 2025 - Accelerate aims to eliminate trachoma in at least eight countries and speed up progress in several others by 2023.
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https://www.sightsavers.org/eye-conditions/trachoma/
Nov 18, 2025 - Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. Without treatment, it can cause permanent sight loss.
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https://www.sightsavers.ie/eye-conditions/trachoma/
Nov 18, 2025 - Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. Without treatment, it can cause permanent sight loss.
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https://www.sightsavers.ie/eye-conditions/trachoma/history-of-trachoma/
Oct 3, 2025 - Trachoma is one of the world’s oldest recorded diseases: evidence suggests it has been around for more than 10,000 years. Our timeline tracks the disease...
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https://www.sightsavers.org/eye-conditions/trachoma/elimination-progress/
Nov 18, 2025 - With continued support and investment, we can make history as the generation that eliminates trachoma as a public health problem around the world.
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https://www.sightsavers.ie/programmes/safe-trachoma-control/
May 14, 2025 - The SAFE programme, which ended in 2019, aimed to control the spread of blinding trachoma via surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and environmental...
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https://www.paho.org/en/news/1-12-2025-knowledge-dialogues-guatemala-preventing-trachoma-community
Guatemala, November 2025. – A recent experience in Xejuyup, a K’iche’ Mayan community in Sololá, demonstrated that health cannot be imposed: it is built...
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https://www.sightsaversusa.org/eye-conditions/trachoma/elimination-progress/
Nov 18, 2025 - With continued support and investment, we can make history as the generation that eliminates trachoma as a public health problem around the world.
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https://endfund.org/about-trachoma/
Aug 20, 2025 - Trachoma is a bacterial infection spread by houseflies and the leading cause of blindness due to infection worldwide, with 1.9M blind or visually impaired.
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https://www.sightsavers.org/programmes/accelerate/
Aug 7, 2025 - Accelerate aims to eliminate trachoma in at least eight countries and speed up progress in several others by 2023.
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https://www.cartercenter.org/programs/trachoma/
Oct 9, 2025 - What is Trachoma? Trachoma is a bacterial eye infection found in poor, isolated communities lacking basic hygiene, clean water, and adequate sanitation....
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https://www.sightsavers.ie/programmes/accelerate/
Aug 7, 2025 - Accelerate aims to eliminate trachoma in at least eight countries and speed up progress in several others by 2023.
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/trachoma-prevalence-age-standardized-ihme
May 17, 2024 - Estimated number of people living with trachoma, per 100,000 people in the population. Trachoma is a bacterial eye infection and is a major infectious cause of...
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https://www.sightsaversusa.org/eye-conditions/trachoma/
Nov 18, 2025 - Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. Without treatment, it can cause permanent sight loss.
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https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/trachoma
Nov 28, 2025 - Trachoma is a disease of the eye caused by infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. It is a public health problem in 32 countries and is responsible...
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https://www.who.int/news/item/18-02-2026-who-validates-elimination-of-trachoma-as-a-public-health-problem-in-libya
Feb 18, 2026 - WHO today announced that Libya has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, a landmark victory for public health in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region....
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https://www.paho.org/en/documents/colombia-partnership-eliminate-trachoma-public-health-problem
Colombia advances regional efforts to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. In Colombia, more than 234 000 people require interventions to eliminate...
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https://www.sightsavers.org/programmes/safe-trachoma-control/
May 14, 2025 - The SAFE programme, which ended in 2019, aimed to control the spread of blinding trachoma via surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and environmental...
safetrachomacontrolprogrammes
https://www.sightsavers.ie/eye-conditions/trachoma/elimination-progress/
Nov 18, 2025 - With continued support and investment, we can make history as the generation that eliminates trachoma as a public health problem around the world.
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https://www.sightsaversusa.org/news/2025/11/egypt-eliminates-trachoma-a-disease-first-recorded-by-ancient-egyptians/
Nov 26, 2025 - Thanks to the support of Sightsavers and other partners, more than two million people in Egypt are no longer at risk of losing their sight to trachoma.
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https://www.sightsaversusa.org/eye-conditions/trachoma/history-of-trachoma/
Oct 3, 2025 - Trachoma is one of the world’s oldest recorded diseases: evidence suggests it has been around for more than 10,000 years. Our timeline tracks the disease...
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https://www.paho.org/en/stories/activities-tocantins-strengthen-brazils-trachoma-elimination-strategy
Brasília, September 9, 2025 (PAHO) — Brazil continues to make progress toward the elimination of trachoma, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness...
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