WHO declares India Trachoma-free at World Health Assembly Kajal Rajput22 May 2025 1:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: At the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
India becomes third country in Southeast Asia to eliminate Trachoma as public health problem Kajal Rajput20 March 2025 12:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has taken various steps under the National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment...
WHO Recognizes India for Eliminating Trachoma as Public Health Problem Kajal Rajput10 Oct 2024 12:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the Government of India has eliminated Trachoma as a public health problem becoming...
Is mass azithromycin distribution to preschool-aged children effective in eliminating trachoma? Medha Baranwal25 Aug 2022 7:30 PM ISTUSA: Researchers in a recent study in JAMA Network Open have advised against administring targeted antibiotic treatments as an elimination strategy in...
Pfizer sets sights on elimination of blinding disease trachoma by 2030 Ruchika Sharma26 Jun 2022 9:00 AM ISTThe ITI had initially hoped to eliminate the disease by 2020, but is now setting its sights on 2030.
WHO felicitates Nepal for eliminating trachoma, controlling Rubella Medical Dialogues Bureau25 Nov 2018 9:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) has felicitated Nepal for eliminating trachoma, a tropical disease that leads to blindness, as a public...
Shri JP Nadda inaugurates Swacchta Mela at AIIMS, New Delhi Medical Dialogues Bureau3 Oct 2018 9:32 AM ISTNew Delhi: Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare today inaugurated the ‘Swacchta Mela’ at AIIMS, New Delhi. Speaking at the...
JP Nadda releases National Trachoma Survey Report 2014-17 savita thakur thakur12 Dec 2017 11:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare released the National Trachoma Survey Report (2014-17). He declared that India is...
Trachoma eliminated among Indian children: AIIMS doctors savita thakur thakur11 March 2017 9:14 AM ISTNew Delhi: Trachoma, a leading cause of infectious blindness, has been eliminated among children in India, AIIMS doctors claimed.The doctors from the...
