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International Trachoma Initiative

Goal:To eliminate trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable blindness

Targeted Area: The developing world

Start Date: 1998

Pfizer's Commitment: Donations of the antibiotic Zithromax® (azithromycin) and support for community-based training and education initiatives

Partners: Task Force for Child Survival and Development, World Health Organization, Gates Foundation, Carter Center, Lions Club International, USAID, and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation among others

Successes:

  • More than 145 million treatments of Zithromax® donated for use in 18 countries
  • More than 416,000 surgeries performed to treat advanced cases of trichiasis, the advanced and blinding stage of trachoma
  • Thousands of health care workers trained in trachoma treatment
  • In 2006, Morocco became the first country to complete the campaign for trachoma control and is working toward WHO certification that blinding trachoma has been eliminated as a public health problem.
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