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children stand with a dose pole as they are measured for medicine.

Accelerate aims to eliminate trachoma in at least eight countries and speed up progress in several others by 2023.

Trachoma surgeon checks the eyes of a patient for signs of trachoma outside her home in Benin.

The Accelerate programme, which aims to eliminate trachoma in nine African countries by 2023, has made great progress in its first 12 months.

A man wearing a protective mask presents in front of a blackboard next to a dose poleivers training to antibiotics distributers in a classroom at Government Day Secondary School, Jigawa State

News / Fighting disease /

The Accelerate programme has reached the end of a year like no other. Through a global pandemic, we’ve innovated and adapted our trachoma work to keep on track.

A group of doctors in blue surgical scrubs performing eye surgery.

From the field / Fighting disease /

As Côte d’Ivoire completes its final operations as part of the Accelerate programme to fight trachoma, hear the stories of some of the people involved.

News / Fighting disease /

In three years, Sightsavers’ Accelerate programme has supported governments in 12 countries to provide eye surgery to 37,000 people.

Safia has her eyes examined by a health worker to check for signs of trachoma.

From the field / Eye health /

The Accelerate programme, supported by Sightsavers, aims to stop people going blind from trachoma. In Benin, five patients reveal how the programme has changed their lives.

An elderly woman and a younger woman sit next to a man who holds a clipboard, in a hospital waiting area.

Blogs / Disability rights /

Linsey Winter shares how the Inclusive Data Charter is helping to accelerate action on collecting and using data that includes everyone.

A large group of people hold a banner that celebrates the launch of the first cross-border mass drug administration for trachoma.

News / Fighting disease /

On 21 October 2021, teams in key districts on both sides of the Kenyan-Ugandan border began a mass drug distribution campaign to fight the disease.

Student Ariane smiles at her desk while wearing her new glasses.

Reports / Eye health /

This new refractive error strategy, building on achievements to date, aims to accelerate access to, and use of, equitable and inclusive refractive services.

A man wearing magnifying glasses over his eyes shines a torch into a toddler's eye during a trachoma survey.

Blogs / Fighting disease /

Biruck Kebede, who leads Sightsavers’ NTD work in Ethiopia, explains how data can help to eliminate diseases such as trachoma.

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77 search results found for accelerate

The Accelerate trachoma elimination programme

Accelerate: what’s been achieved in 2019

Accelerate: the story of 2020

How trachoma surgery has changed lives in Côte d’Ivoire

Thousands of people in Africa get sight-saving surgery

Seeing clearly: five sight-saving stories in Benin

Celebrating the Inclusive Data Charter’s second birthday

First cross-border treatments for trachoma are distributed in Kenya and Uganda

Sightsavers refractive error strategy: tackling the world’s biggest cause of visual impairment

Is data integration the answer to eliminating trachoma in Ethiopia?

Protecting sight and fighting for disability rights