Three years closer to banishing trachoma in Zimbabwe

A lot can happen in three years

It’s a historic moment when a country eliminates a disease like trachoma. In Zimbabwe, we are closer than ever to reaching that moment, and it can make you reflect on the progress that’s been made.

Today, trachoma is prevalent in only three of the country’s 63 districts, but just three years ago it was prevalent in 21 of them. That’s a big difference!

If you go back even three years before then, we didn’t know very much about the prominence of trachoma. We spent several years working with the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health to conduct surveys on trachoma across the country.

With this knowledge, we knew where to send treatments and which families needed help in preventing future infections. Your generous donations and the work of the local health team has helped to make this difference possible.

Your gift today could help train extra healthcare workers and provide the antibiotics we’ll need to eliminate trachoma for these last three districts. It will be an amazing feeling to finally experience the historic moment that’s already been seen in Ghana, The Gambia and Malawi.