Sentences with word «trachoma»

One of the stated objectives of the agreement is to reduce the incidence of trachoma in the community.

In 2009 the Australian Government made a commitment to eliminate blinding trachoma from Aboriginal communities.

While cataract is responsible for nearly 20 million of the 45 million blind people in the world, the next major cause is trachoma which blinds 4.9 million individuals, mainly as a result of corneal scarring and vascularization.

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.

The forum discussed ways in which trachoma elimination would be achieved across the large region of Central Australia that includes substantial areas of the NT, SA and WA.

Repeated cases of trachoma infection may cause scarring of the inner eyelid, which may cause entropion.

She runs the Gambian arm of a trial which seeks not just to treat trachoma a bacterial infection that can cause blindness, but to eradicate it from the countries where the study is being run.

The findings suggest that measures of facial cleanliness can be added to trachoma surveys in the developing countries where the infection is a public health problem.

Although widespread treatment always carries a risk of emerging drug resistance, Borrmann says azithromycin has been used in mass campaigns against trachoma without losing its potency.

Stronger - SAFE is a # 3.9 m Wellcome Trust funded project that will increase our understanding of how trachoma is transmitted, and hopefully lead to the development and testing of new, more effective interventions and treatment approaches.

An eye infection called trachoma is still common in North Africa and South Asia and this can cause scarring of the inner eyelid, which may cause friction and entropion.

While a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, he worked alongside local counterparts in campaigns against the guinea worm and trachoma diseases, and managed the construction of a rural health clinic.

When Australia is the only developed nation in the world where trachoma is endemic, we need to change more than our constitution.

2015» LCIF, Lions and partners celebrate the donation of the 500 millionth dose of azithromycin, an antibiotic used to fight trachoma.»

Part of the control strategy for trachoma — repeated eye infections caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis — is facial cleanliness.

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

Earlier phases of the study have shown it to be effective in treating individual cases of trachoma, and the trial is now looking into what treatment strategies will be required to stop the infection spreading and thereby eradicate the disease within the country.

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

Tropical diseases like guinea worm, trachoma, and schistosomiasis, which infect millions of people annually, are found most often in places with unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation and hygiene.

Scientific American editor Christine Gorman talks about the recent conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, including Jimmy Carter's efforts against guinea worm and trachoma, and Rosalynn Carter's mental health initiatives

The trial has been so successful that there are hardly any trachoma cases in Gambia these days.

«We recommend conducting more inter-observer trials in various trachoma settings and that assessing clean faces be added to surveys to trachoma control, which already measure environmental improvements, in districts.»

«Judging a «clean face» for trachoma.»

The Tool can visualize the geographical distribution of all of the main preventative chemotherapy (PCT) NTDs: schistosomiasis, soil - transmitted helminths, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and blinding trachoma.

Public health stakeholders from Myanmar are taking steps to improve the mapping and surveillance of leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and trachoma, LASER...

A major new research project that aims to accelerate the elimination of trachoma has been launched

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), such as dengue, lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, and leishmaniasis, are called «neglected,» because they generally afflict the world's poor and historically have not received as much attention as other diseases.

The MRC Unit in The Gambia has over the past 25 years generated a unique resource of clinical data and samples for research into the human genetic factors that determine resistance and susceptibility to malaria, tuberculosis, trachoma, and other important infectious diseases.

«Goldene Medene» has the ethically questionable Dr. Spencer at Ellis Island — with the power to declare if immigrants have trachoma, or are deranged, with simple swipes of blue chalk on their shoulders — thinking of using his power to get closer to an immigrant woman who looks so much like the one who rejected marriage to him.

He is looking for trachoma, a contagious, incurable, blinding eye disease that was the leading medical cause for deportation, 1910s Gelatin silver print; printed 1910s 4 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches

Rates of diseases associated with poor environmental health (including water and food borne diseases, trachoma, tuberculosis and rheumatic heart disease)

Azithromycin is an antibiotic introduced in the mid 1990s in Australia and widely used in the treatment of another common STI, and the eye infection, trachoma — in doses that were never considered therapeutic but may well have an impact on sensitive strains of incubating syphilis.