By Aine Dolan | Development Assistant
75% of all visual impairment can be prevented or treated. In most cases, what is needed to help someone see is relatively straightforward - providing glasses, removing a cataract, antibiotics or raising awareness of good eye care can be enough to prevent a lifetime of blindness.
Trachoma is a painful debilitating eye disease that will rob you of your sight without treament.
Ethiopia represents 30% of Sub-Saharan trachoma patients and 40% of children suffer from active trachoma.
Thankfully, Orbis is hard at work with our local partners to provide access to antibiotics to stop trachoma.
We are distributing the antibiotic, Zithromax (kindly donated by Pfizer), and the eye ointment, Tetracycline, to over a million people from this region. The antibiotic will treat the active trachoma infection and prevent the disease from further transmission.
This will enable these communities to free themselves from trachoma and allow the next generation to grow up free from the threat of blindness.
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