Fighting disease
Professor Stephen Hawking laid to rest in Westminster Abbey
The renowned physicist, who died in March, has had his ashes interred between those of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
In Ghana, we’ve beaten trachoma and changed millions of lives
In May 2018, Ghana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma. Read the amazing stories here.
Trachoma is eliminated in Ghana
Ghana has become the first country in sub-Saharan Africa and the Commonwealth to eliminate trachoma, as validated by the World Health Organization.
Sightsavers’ trachoma work in Uganda features in The Telegraph
Journalists from the newspaper visited Uganda to see how the country is tackling this infectious neglected tropical disease, thanks to help from UK Aid.
First treatments for trachoma distributed in Yemen
More than 4,000 volunteers, most of them women, went door to door with medication to treat the potentially blinding disease.
What if we eliminated one of the world’s oldest diseases?
Sightsavers CEO Caroline Harper says we could be just years away from one of the greatest achievements in human health: ridding the world of trachoma.
Sightsavers CEO gives TED Talk outlining plan to eliminate trachoma
During her talk in Vancouver on 11 April, Caroline Harper urged philanthropists to support a new project that could help to eliminate the disease.
Sightsavers celebrates collaboration to tackle trachoma
To mark World Health Day on Saturday 7 April, Sightsavers is celebrating work being done to eliminate trachoma – a huge success story in global health.
Former Bishop of London praises Uganda’s progress in fighting trachoma
The Right Rev Richard Chartres visited the Iganga district in the east of the country, where he saw work taking place to eliminate the blinding disease.
The personal stories behind Sightsavers’ billionth milestone
In Nigeria, Sightsavers' Rebecca Mintrim joined celebrations for the one billionth NTD treatment.
