Sentences with phrase «trachoma which»

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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.

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.

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

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.

Unfortunately, the answer is no (there is an abundance of literature on this matter which shows that face washing alone does not affect trachoma rates - the SAFE approach is necessary).