We could be just years away from eliminating Trachoma, one of the world’s oldest diseases, says Dr Caroline Harper CBE, CEO of Sightsavers. ‘Last week I stood in front of hundreds of entrepreneurs, tech visionaries and creative thinkers at TED2018 with a pair of tweezers hanging from a chain around my neck. I was in Vancouver to talk about trachoma, the world’s biggest infectious cause of blindness, and how we could be just years away from eliminating it. I was wearing tweezers because after years of repeated trachoma infections with no treatment, scar tissue forms under the person’s eyelid inverting the

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