SAFE Strategy

A World Health Organization recommended strategy, SAFE is an innovative, community-based approach designed to fight trachoma by treating infection and reversing its damage, increasing the availability of health care in endemic areas, and addressing underlying causes of the disease.

Click on each letter of the SAFE Strategy for more information.

Surgery to correct advanced stages of the disease
Antibiotic distribution of Pfizer-donated Zithromax® to treat active infection
Face washing to reduce disease transmission
Environmental change to increase access to clean water and improved sanitation
Please click here for a downloadable PDF of the SAFE strategy.