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Mary, a volunteer in Ghana, sits with three smiling children.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Mary, a dedicated mother of seven, used to work as a teacher. Now, she is saving sight in Asubende village in Ghana, by distributing medication to protect people from river blindness. Here you can meet some of the people she has helped.

Issa, Mayasa and Bibie outside their home

News / Fighting disease /

In 2002 there were was about 1.5 billion people worldwide at risk of the eye disease. But new data from the World Health Organization shows this has fallen to just over 142 million people.

June 2019

Julianah from Kogi, Nigeria stands outside a field near her home in Ajenejo, Kogi State Nigeria.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers' river blindness and lymphatic filariasis programme has delivered 60 million treatments in four countries. Here’s what we’ve learned from the project.

Ron Bannerman, June 2019

A group of participants from the Sudan Tropical Data training stand together for a photo.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Earlier this year, the Ministry of Health in Sudan invited eye health workers from Somalia and Libya to attend a training session to teach them how to gather data as part of the Tropical Data initiative.

Cristina Jimenez, June 2019

A surgeon operates, using only the light of a window, on a patient to save their sight from trachoma.

News / Fighting disease /

Adriane Ohanesian’s image of a surgeon operating on a teenager in a makeshift clinic has been put forward for the Wellcome Photography Prize 2019.

June 2019

A woman affected by lymphatic filariasis (LF) sits outside her home.

News / Fighting disease /

The research, carried out by Sightsavers, looks at the relationship between disabilities and neglected tropical disease treatment.

May 2019

A man has his eyes checked at a screening camp in Kasungu, Malawi

Blogs / Fighting disease /

The Coordinated Approach to Community Health programme, which finished in March 2019, has restored the sight of more than 21,000 people and generated a wealth of knowledge.

Moses Chege, May 2019

School children in Kenya sing songs outside in the sunshine.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Sightsavers’ Julie Jenner meets the teachers and students who are fighting disease and preventing blindness by teaching children about good hygiene.

A man with sore eyes looks at the camera.

Reports / Fighting disease /

An evaluative learning exercise of two initiatives to eliminate trachoma in ten African countries.

Jacob and Moses outside their village in Nigeria.

Stories / Fighting disease /

Meet Jacob and Moses, who are working together to protect their community from diseases such as river blindness.

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Fighting disease

Meet Mary, a sight-saving volunteer

Number of people at risk of trachoma has fallen by 91%

Putting people at the centre of our work to eliminate neglected tropical diseases

How health workers are gathering data to fight trachoma in conflict areas

Photo of sight-saving surgery is nominated for UK prize

Sightsavers’ research on NTDs and disability is published by Oxford University Press

Treating hard-to-reach people: what we’ve learned from CATCH

Meeting Kenya’s health heroes

Trachoma elimination in Africa: Lessons from two multi-country initiatives

The father and son fighting tropical diseases in Nigeria

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all