Sentences with phrase «as trachoma»

Communicable diseases, such as trachoma and tuberculosis, are linked to overcrowding and poor sanitation in living conditions.

It is also shameful that we continue to see diseases such as trachoma that have been eradicated in all other developed nations and are more commonly associated with poorer nations.

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Collectively known as neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, these illnesses include leprosy, rabies, blinding trachoma and lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis).

For example, life expectation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in 1999 - 2000 was estimated to be the same as the total male population in 1901 - 1910, while for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females it is similar to the total female population in 1920 - 22228; Adelaide was recorded as having an infant mortality rate of 140 deaths per 1,000 live births at the end of the nineteenth century229, similar to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the 1960s and 1970s; trachoma was common in the capital cities of the late nineteenth century, as it is in some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities today.230

Will it be judged by the media as having failed on its agreement with government if trachoma is still endemic?