In an insane world, from time to time some good news:

Cambodia, Laos eliminate trachoma
September 21, 2017

Trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Cambodia and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, according to a WHO press release.

WHO launched the Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma by the year 2020 in 1997, and in 1998 the World Health Assembly passed a resolution targeting trachoma for elimination as a public health problem.

In Cambodia, trachoma has been a recognized problem since the 1990s, and in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, since the 1970s, the release said.

“Trachoma is a disease of poverty. Communities that don’t have good access to safe water and sanitation are the hardest hit. But it is possible to tackle this public health problem, as Cambodia and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic have done, by making the right investments to protect peoples’ health,” Dr. Shin Young-soo, WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, said in the release.

The two countries conducted screenings and treatment services through their respective health systems and improved living standards, water supply, sanitation and hygiene to decrease the number of trachoma infections in recent years, the release said.

According to WHO, the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem means a country can show that less than 5% of children aged 1 to 9 years have signs of active trachoma, less than 0.2% of people older than 15 years have a more advanced form of disease requiring eyelid surgery, and the country’s health system can identify and manage new cases of trichiasis.
https://www.healio.com/ophthalmology/pe ... e-trachoma

At last some good news. Some things are getting better in Cambodia.

So much shit happening everywhere.

The other forum lives by the "know nothing" strategy and doesn't allow discussion
when the topic came up last.

The Australian health people with the national government think that there should
be more spreading of the word. It is not a cool enough topic so they do not have
a red or pink or yellow ribbon thing day, but they do advocate speaking about the topic.

I know the mods are real touchy about what topics come up, and so probably would be
the posters hear if they thought about it.

So "YES" or "NO" is it OK if I post here?

what ? you got censored for discussing trachoma? it is certainly alright to discuss it here.

YES.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:55 pm

J. Visiting wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:44 pm The other forum lives by the "know nothing" strategy and doesn't allow discussion
when the topic came up last.

Have you got a link to the thread?
"YES" or "NO"?

YES

we don't do petty bickering here anymore, among other things.