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WHO: Several countries on track to eradicate trachoma

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GENEVA — A global goal to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem by 2020 is achievable, World Health Organization officials have announced.

“Several countries are on track to eliminate the infectious eye disease,” the officials said in a press release.

The WHO said the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mexico, Morocco and Oman have “successfully implemented their national strategies of interventions necessary for eliminating trachoma.”

The WHO is developing the specific epidemiological assessment criteria to determine when countries have fully eliminated blinding trachoma; the criteria should be finalized by the end of the year. The WHO will then be able to provide country-by-country certification that the disease has been eliminated.