El Salvador validated by WHO as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem
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El Salvador has been validated by WHO as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem after a rigorous multi-year assessment (2023-2026) found no evidence of active transmission, no cases in children, and no advanced blindness-causing cases in adults.
Ongoing surveillance and health system capacity to detect future cases remain essential to sustaining this achievement.
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