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17 Oct 2017
Highlights from World Sight Day 2017
17 Oct 2017
More than a million people examined for trachoma
Dear all, Please find below ICTC social media toolkit for World Sight Day, October 12. This year the coalition has focused communications on trichiasis surgeries and put together a tribute to Emily Gower and Jim Johnson for their contribution to surgical training in an article you can read here. ICTC has also posted a news piece supporting a new campaign calling for avoidable blindness and poor vision to be included in the agenda of next April’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the United Kin
11 Oct 2017
Vision for the Commonwealth: New campaign launched to bring vision to everyone, everywhere
Capturing NNN 2017
10 Oct 2017
Capturing NNN 2017
The Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Kingdom of Cambodia have officially eliminated trachoma, the world's leading infectious cause of blindness, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. It is the first time a WHO Western Pacific Region country has been validated for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem and follows strong progress in a global effort to eliminate the disease by the year 2020, which has seen Mexico, Morocco and Oman all receive elimination status. Trachoma is a n
19 Sep 2017
Cambodia and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic officially eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
12 Jul 2017
Record-breaking numbers of surgeries and drug distributions result in trachoma decline

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18 Nov 2020
WASH and health working together: Why cross-sectoral collaboration is needed to accelerate and sustain progress for NTDs
ICTC Executive Group
Serge Resnikoff, ICTC Immediate Past Chair
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Building back better: Why integrated people centred eye care is needed to achieve vision for all
Serge Resnikoff
Benjamin Binagwa, Chief of Party for USAID’s Act to End NTDs | East program in Uganda
11 Sep 2020
Uganda commits to cross-border NTD strategy to ensure no one is left behind
Benjamin Binagwa
06 Aug 2020
Why tailored programs are needed to improve indigenous health: Lessons from the global trachoma program
21 May 2020
Mapping morbidity moves Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire toward NTD elimination
Jessica Mussro and Katherine Sanchez
ICTC Chair, Scott McPherson
08 Mar 2020
2018-2020: Commonwealth countries are making strides in commitment to achieve vision for all
ICTC Executive Group

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