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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
G20 leaders commit to combating international health challenges
11 Jul 2017
G20 leaders commit to combating international health challenges

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Aparna Baura Adams, Project Manager, International Coalition for Trachoma Control
18 Nov 2019
COR-NTDs and ASTMH 2019: Why operational research is critical to achieve the global elimination of trachoma
Aparna Baura Adams
Shelmel Terefa, a school teacher, demonstrates face washing to students at his school in Aware-Golje village in the North Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. Photo credit: Michael Amendolia/The Fred Hollows Foundation
15 Nov 2019
Crossing the finish line: Sustaining behavior change for the prevention and elimination of NTDs
Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network WASH Working Group
Dr Martha Saboya
08 Aug 2019
Achieving equity in the Americas: How PAHO Member States are working to improve indigenous health
Dr Martha Saboya
20 May 2019
Trachoma elimination in Africa: Lessons from two ICTC partnership initiatives
Scott McPherson
Makoy Yibi Iogora
04 Apr 2019
World Health Day 2019: South Sudan makes strides to deliver trachoma interventions to hard to reach populations
Makoy Yibi Iogora
18 Nov 2018
How the NNN is bringing sectors together to beat NTDs and achieve health for all
Prof KH Martin Kollmann, Leah Wohlgemuth

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