Global health milestone as Pakistan becomes 19th country to eliminate blinding trachoma
25 October 2024
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international, WHO, trachoma, global, disease, blindness, charity, Pakistan, SightSavers
Sightsavers commends Pakistan following the World Health Organization (WHO) announcement that it has become the nineteenth country to eliminate blinding trachoma as a public health problem. This phenomenal achievement means around 3.7 million people [1] in Pakistan are no longer...
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