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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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Trachoma screening at a health facility, Oromia Regio, Ethiopia. Photo Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images for the International Trachoma Initiative
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A mother administers POS to her child in Mungwi district, Zambia. Photo credit: Sumon Ray/International Trachoma Initiative
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World Sight Day 2022: Celebrating the public/private partnership that has accelerated progress to #endtrachoma

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