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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.

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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

Samson Lokele talks to Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.

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Staff gathered at Buckingham Palace in the UK to recognise the achievements of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Trachoma Initiative.

October 2019

Four Sightsavers staff members smile at the camera.

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The parliamentary event showcased the UK government’s new flagship NTD programme, Ascend, which aims to protect 200 million people from neglected tropical diseases.

October 2019

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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.

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

September 2019

Two trucks drive through a dusty landscape in Benin, with parched shrubs on either side of the road.

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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.

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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.

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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

Boulders in a river beneath a canopy of trees.

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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

Sightsavers surgeon Aliyu smiles with a group of children.

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Aliyu A-Umar, a former trachoma surgeon in Nigeria, has an inspiring way of making people feel at ease about eye care.

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

The Queen hosts reception celebrating progress to eliminate trachoma

Groundbreaking disease prevention programme is presented to MPs

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

Meet the dancing trachoma surgeon

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