The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for global elimination of trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. In over 20 years of partnership with theInternational Trachoma Initiative, Pfizer has donated more than 900 million doses of the antibiotic Zithromax®, which can be used to help treat and prevent the infection that leads to trachoma, reaching more than 200 million people across 39 countries.
Through our partners’ on-the-ground efforts, theWHO reported a 91% reduction in the number of people at risk of trachoma, from 1.5 billion in 2002 to just over 142 million in 2019. Eight countries have been validated by the WHO astrachoma-free as of 2019, bringing us one step closer to a trachoma-free world.
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