The work will tackle the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness, trachoma, whilst delivering over 300,000 services, including screenings, distributing antibiotics, providing spectacles, and conducting surgeries, to communities.
Trachoma is highly contagious, but it is easily preventable and treatable through the World Health organisation’s SAFE strategy:
- Surgery,
- Antibiotics,
- Facial Cleanliness,
- Environmental improvements.
In rural Ethiopia, the burden of the disease remains high, as medical support can be hard to reach and through repeated episodes of the infection in adults, painful blinding trachoma (trichiasis) can develop.