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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

A man with sore eyes looks at the camera.

Fighting disease / Reports /

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.

A woman has a big smile after receiving trachoma surgery

News / Fighting disease /

In the year since Sightsavers' CEO gave a TED Talk about plans to eliminate trachoma, the continued fight to eliminate the disease moves closer.

April 2019

Community designated distributors in Kaduna State, Nigeria pose for a photo outside the local health centre.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

The UNITED programme has now come to an end, and has taught us numerous lessons that will inform future integrated neglected tropical disease programmes.

Safiya Sanda, April 2019

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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

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

The father and son fighting tropical diseases in Nigeria

Trachoma elimination moves closer, a year after groundbreaking TED talk

Learning to adapt: what the UNITED programme has taught us

Protecting sight, fighting disease and promoting equality for all