Blindness

3 articles published between November 13, 2025 and September 3, 2026.

Timor-Leste clears trachoma, ending the disease as a problem across South-East Asia

WHO validated Timor-Leste's elimination of trachoma, the last suspected focus in its South-East Asia Region. A 2025 survey of 4,949 young children found no transmission requiring intervention.

3 min read

Four in ten hospitalised mpox patients developed eye disease, a Congolese cohort finds

In South Kivu, ophthalmologists examined 310 patients with confirmed clade Ib mpox at four time points. Periorbital lesions and severe acute malnutrition tripled the risk of ocular involvement.

4 min read

Egypt clears trachoma, a disease documented there for more than 3,000 years

WHO validated Egypt as the 27th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. Its programme began in 2002; the disease still blinds or impairs about 1.9 million people elsewhere.

4 min read

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