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Latest News on Trachoma and NTDs:
+ Reuters: Obama budget boosts funds for tropical diseases
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+ The New York Times: Brazil and India Join the Top Ranks of Government Supporting Research
+ End the Neglect: Night 6: Trachoma
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Blinding Trachoma
Special 10th Anniversary Report: 1998-2008
Read the Summer 2010 Edition of ITI's
E-Newsletter Trachoma Matters
New Guide to Help Countries Manage Zithromax
program manger's guide to
help countries manage the
hundreds of million of doses of
Zithromax donated by Pfizer
that will help treat and prevent
blinding trachoma. Read More
GET 2020 Meeting: Renewed Committment with Ten Years To Go
In April 2010, despite travel disruptions
due to a volcanic ash cloud, ITI and other
members of the World Health Organization
(WHO) Alliance for the Global Elimination
of Blinding Trachoma (GET 2020) gathered
in Geneva to assess what is needed to
reach the 2020 goal. Read More
Ongoing Support for ITI and Partner in Oromia Region, Ethiopia
The Lavelle Fund for the Blind has
decided to extend its work in Ethiopia
through 2013 with ITI and its longtime
local partner, Grarbet Tehadiso Mahber
(GTM). The decision means increased
support for all components of the WHO-
supported SAFE strategy, which included
surgery, antibiotics, face-washing and
environmental changes. Read More





