Sentences with phrase «trachoma diseases»

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.

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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.

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

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.

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)

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.

A policy analyst should be asking, what is the evidence for face washing in the prevention and disease control of trachoma?

The responsibility for trachoma control, rheumatic fever and a range of other communicable diseases is a core obligation.

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