The World Health Organisation (WHO) this month certified that India has eliminated trachoma, an infectious disease that can ...

Trachoma, a chronic conjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. In recognition of this public health problem, the World Health Assembly ...

Trachoma, once a major cause of blindness in India during the late 1950s, has been officially eliminated as a public health ...

[File, Standard] Trachoma remains a neglected tropical disease in Kenya, despite 10 million people being at risk of contracting it, more so in arid and semi-arid where livestock is the main ...

Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.