As part of its commitment to securing a better future for children, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF works closely with the International Trachoma Initiative and Pfizer Inc. to eliminate blinding trachoma.
You might remember that in June of 2011, the trachoma community took a major step forward with the deployment of new, innovative tools to map the community's efforts in trachoma-endemic regions throughout the world. Now, that same international coalition of partners has published a global strategy with milestones to meet and steps to take in order to achieve its goal of eliminating trachoma by 2020.
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The report, called "2020 INSight," highlights the urgent need for action to avoid additional suffering and unnecessary blindness for hundreds of thousands of people. It is produced by the International Coalition for Trachoma Control (ICTC) and available at ICTC's website.
The figures are astounding: blinding trachoma, endemic in 57 countries, blinds an estimated four people every hour. More than 2 million people are either blind or suffer excruciating pain because of trachoma, and about 4.6 million need surgery (part of the World Health Organization-endorsed "SAFE" strategy to prevent trachoma) to prevent them from going blind.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/unicefusa/fieldnotes/~3/QqrjvqoPmZY/blinding-trachoma-report.html
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