Why it's proving hard to eliminate the eye disease trachoma by 2020: Trachoma can lead to blindness if left untreated. Alaine Kathryn Knipes/CDCTrachoma is a disease that can cause blindness and visual impairment in about 1.9 million people every year. Poor communities in rural areas of countries in Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Australia and the Middle East are most … [Read more...] about Why it’s proving hard to eliminate the eye disease trachoma by 2020 | The Conversation
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The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust to eliminate blinding Trachoma in Zambia by 2019
APO News from Africa: The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust to eliminate blinding Trachoma in Zambia by 2019: The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, Director of Advocacy and Commonwealth Engagement Eleanor Fuller OBE has revealed that the Trust has decided to fund its activities to target the elimination of blinding Trachoma in Zambia by 2019. In an interview … [Read more...] about The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust to eliminate blinding Trachoma in Zambia by 2019
What Africa still needs to do to eliminate malaria | The Conversation
What Africa still needs to do to eliminate malaria: A young girl with malaria rests in the inpatient ward of a health centre in the South Sudan. Reuters/Adriane Ohanesian Malaria is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases affecting man. It is an ancient and modern disease – descriptions of illnesses similar to malaria are found in ancient texts from China, India, … [Read more...] about What Africa still needs to do to eliminate malaria | The Conversation
Only targeted policies focused on rural people will eliminate poverty in developing countries, concludes new report
Only targeted policies focused on rural people will eliminate poverty in developing countries, concludes new report: Economic growth is not enough to save those threatened daily with starvation. Governments need to tailor policies and investments to transform rural areas in developing countries if they want to eliminate poverty, according to a new global study released by the … [Read more...] about Only targeted policies focused on rural people will eliminate poverty in developing countries, concludes new report
What’s needed in the final push to eliminate new cases of HIV in children | The Conversation
The successful prevention of mother to child transmission programmes means nearly all HIV-infected pregnant women should get anti-retroviral treatment to protect their babies. Joshua Wanyama/Africa KnowsThe prevention of HIV from mothers to children has been the most successful HIV prevention programme in South Africa and across the globe. When the programme was started in … [Read more...] about What’s needed in the final push to eliminate new cases of HIV in children | The Conversation
