Neglected Tropical Disease

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Health Burundi
7. September 2025

Another Country Celebrates the End of Trachoma

Burundi has eliminated its first neglected tropical disease, becoming the eighth African country to have achieved the feat of eradicating trachoma as a public health problem.
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Health Papua New Guinea
10. June 2025

Another Trachoma-Free Success Story

The Pacific Island country of Papua New Guinea has officially eliminated trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, as a public health problem through robust disease surveillance.
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Health Chad
11. July 2024

Dream Come True: No More Sleep Sickness!

Not only has Chad eliminated its first neglected tropical disease , the gambiense form of the sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, but it has also become the 51st country to do so, making the 100-country target by 2030 set by the World Health Organization…