Introduction On January 20, 2025, a joint statement by Her Excellency Hon. Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, confirmed an outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) following the detection of a positive case among 26 tested samples. The […]
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What we’ve learned from trachoma elimination can help fight other infectious diseases
Last summer the World Health Organization confirmed Iraq as the 18th country in the world to eliminate the blinding disease trachoma as a public health problem, just months after Benin and Mali achieved the same goal. Each elimination takes us another step closer to beating this ancient scourge which turns sufferers’ eyelashes inwards causing […]