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A male Tropical Data trainer shows female trainee how to identify what trachoma follicles would look like by using small, circular, red stickers with five white dots on their thumbs.

News / Fighting disease /

More than 700 surveys to track levels of blinding trachoma have been completed globally in the past year as part of the Tropical Data initiative.

October 2019

Eye health workers in Ethiopia gather data using mobile phone.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers' Sarah Bartlett explains how technology – in various forms – helps us to keep track of the complex logistics involved with large trachoma treatment campaigns.

Sarah Bartlett, October 2019

Trachoma patient Mariam outside her home in Benin.

From the field / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Katya Mira witnessed the first round of eye operations in Benin to treat blinding trachoma, and saw three women’s lives transformed.

October 2019

News / Fighting disease /

The video, introduced by newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, includes a segment on Sightsavers' work to tackle schistosomiasis in Guinea-Bissau.

September 2019

Muhammed, who has lymphatic filariasis, with health worker Suraji in Nigeria.

News / Fighting disease /

The Ascend programme, which Sightsavers is leading, aims to tackle six of the world’s worst diseases in 25 countries.

September 2019

News / Fighting disease /

A team from ‘La Vie’, BBC Africa’s French-language health programme, followed the story of two women from Benin as they had surgery for blinding trachoma.

September 2019

A woman with LF cleans her affected limb.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ research, which involves testing mosquitoes for signs of the disease, can help us to ensure treatment is directed where it’s needed most.

Dr Rogers Nditanchou, September 2019

A local health worker hands medication to a woman as another health worker looks on.

News / Fighting disease /

Antibiotics were distributed in the Menia region of northern Egypt, where nearly 10 per cent of children aged one to nine had symptoms of the disease.

September 2019

Children celebrate at school leading up to the one billionth NTD treatment.

News / Fighting disease /

The disease has been banished from key areas of Nigeria where it was once endemic, bringing it one step closer to being eliminated.

August 2019

A close-up of a child washing their hands under a water tap.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

To mark World Water Week, Sightsavers technical director Geordie Woods explains how water is vital to prevent disease and save sight.

Sightsavers, August 2019

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Huge increase in Tropical Data surveys means more people are checked for trachoma

Cracking the code: using technology to improve mass drug administration in Zimbabwe

“I want to be able to dance again”

Sightsavers’ work to fight disease features in new video

New health programme will protect 200 million people from disease

BBC Africa films first trachoma operations in Benin

Catching the mosquitoes that spread lymphatic filariasis

Nearly 300,000 people given medication in Egypt during first mass trachoma campaign

Nigerian hotspot declared free from river blindness

Why water matters: insights from an NTD expert

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