Fw: BlindNews: Vietnam aims to be rid of blindness from trachoma by2010

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From: "Leon Gilbert" <BlindNews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:09 PM
Subject: BlindNews: Vietnam aims to be rid of blindness from trachoma by2010


> Today Online, Singapore
> Thursday, July 07, 2005
>
> Vietnam aims to be rid of blindness from trachoma by 2010
>
> CAPTION: An elderly farmer receives an eye examination for trachoma at a
medical center in Hiep Hoa village, Northern province of Thai Binh, 100 km
east of Hanoi. Vietnam is aiming to eradicate trachoma, which causes
blindness, within five years.
>
>    Vietnam is aiming to eradicate trachoma, which causes blindness, within
five years, a decade before the global elimination target date of 2020 set
by the World Health Organization (WHO), officials said.
>
> "We are proud to have reduced the incidence of trachoma so dramatically as
a result of our national trachoma control strategy," Vice Minister of Health
Tran Chi Liem said in a statement.
>
> Vietnam, where the International Trachoma Initiative was launched in 2000,
has proven to be a model in the fight against the disease, according to the
statement issued to coincide with a visit by former US supermodel Cheryl
Tiegs to promote awareness.
>
> Trachoma is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness.
>
> It is easily spread from mother to child and through casual contact, but
health officials said it could be controlled through improved hygiene,
sanitation, use of antibiotics and simple surgery in advanced cases.
>
> Approximately eight million people are visually impaired as a result of
trachoma all over the world.
>
> The WHO estimates that 10 percent of the world's population is at risk of
contracting trachoma, making it a major public health threat.
>
> In Vietnam, an estimated 11 million people are at risk of infection, with
300,000 cases of trachoma-related blindness. - AFP
>
>
> http://www.todayonline.com/articles/60271.asp
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