India Eliminates Trachoma as Public Health Issue
The World Health Organization (WHO) honored India in October 2024 for eliminating trachoma as a public health issue, making it the third country in Southeast Asia to do so after Nepal and Myanmar. Trachoma, once a leading cause of blindness, has been brought under control through India’s National Trachoma Control Program, launched in 1963, and later merged with the National Blindness Control Programme. Using WHO’s SAFE strategy—Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness, and Environmental hygiene—India eliminated infective trachoma by 2017. Continued surveillance and health campaigns are key to preventing its resurgence.
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