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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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Blogs

Paul Weisenfeld
24 Oct 2017
Eliminating the need for foreign assistance, one country at a time
Paul Weisenfeld
Leah Wohlgemuth, Regional Technical Advisor at Sightsavers
12 Oct 2017
From clean hands to clean faces: Working with the WASH sector to end trachoma
Leah Wohlgemuth
11 Oct 2017
Trachoma tributes: Jim Johnson and Emily Gower
Teshome Gebre, Regional Director for Africa, International Trachoma Initiative
07 Sep 2017
Why South-South cooperation is an essential ingredient in trachoma elimination
Teshome Gebre
Prof Hugh Taylor
09 Aug 2017
Closing the gap in Indigenous Eye Health in Australia
Prof Hugh Taylor
08 Aug 2017
Leaving no one behind: Reaching remote indigenous communities on the road to trachoma elimination in Colombia
Julian Trujillo Trujillo

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