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World Health Organization, Global Campaign to Eliminate Trachoma
| Date: | 3 July 2002 |
| Description: | The World Health Organization (WHO) will lead an international alliance of interested parties to work for the global elimination of trachoma - an infectious disease responsible, at present, for at least 15% of the world's blindness. Worldwide, there are about 6 million people largely irreversibly blinded by trachoma, and an estimated 146 million cases of active disease in need of treatment, if blindness is to be prevented.
This site introduces the alliance as well as the disease. |
| Type: | Website |
| URL: | http://www.who.int/pbd/trachoma/pressrel.htm |
| Date entered: | 2002-07-03 |
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