Trachoma is the world's leading cause of "preventable" blindness, yet it costs 10 million people their eyesight. The Carter Center, with partner organizations and community health workers in six African nations, is working to carry out simple solutions to prevent this disease affecting the world's poorest and most forgotten people.
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