Following Timor-Leste’s Triumph, All of Southeast Asia Has Eliminated Trachoma
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- The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced it has certified Timor-Leste as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem
- The leading infectious cause of blindness, the achievement on the island nation now means that the entire Southeast Asian region, as defined by the WHO, is trachoma-free
- It means over 2 billion people now live […] The post Following Timor-Leste’s Triumph, All of Southeast Asia Has Eliminated Trachoma appeared first on Good News Network
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The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced it has certified Timor-Leste as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The leading infectious cause of blindness, the achievement on the island nation now means that the entire Southeast Asian region, as defined by the WHO, is trachoma-free. It means over 2 billion people now live […] The post Following Timor-Leste’s Triumph, All of Southeast Asia Has Eliminated Trachoma appeared first on Good News Network.
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