Brenda Wood follows local group through Ethiopia Trachoma is one of the oldest infectious diseases known to mankind, according to the World Health Organization. The disease affects about 21.4 million people, worldwide.
July 23, 2013 - WXIA-TV Atlanta
Lee Jong-wook in World Health Organization (press release) This is very encouraging progress,said Dr LEE Jong-wook, WHO Director-General. "If countries continue at this rate, the global goal to eliminate blinding trachoma as a public health problem by 2020 can be achieved."
Hank McKinnell in AllAfrica.com Pfizer chief executive Hank McKinnell says: "Trachoma has been one of humankind's most challenging public health problems for centuries...... However, based on the progress made to date, it is now realistic to hope that within the next 20 years, we...
Girma Wolde-Giorgis in PR Newswire (press release) In my country alone, no less than 10 million people are afflicted by active trachoma, a highly contagious blinding disease that is fast spreading,President Wolde-Giorgis said. "ORBIS has worked tirelessly to eliminate this painful and...