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Indonesia
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Nepal
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Detailed explanation-1: -Globally, Malawi joins 14 other countries that have been validated by WHO for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. These are Cambodia, China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Gambia, Ghana, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Togo and Vanuatu.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 2002, NNJS and the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) launched the National Trachoma Programme (NTP) with the objective of eliminating trachoma from all the 20 endemic districts in Nepal by 2017. SAFE was identified as the key strategy to be implemented to achieve this goal.
Detailed explanation-3: -The widespread existence of trachoma in Nepal has been recognized since 1981 when a blindness survey confirmed the extent of the problem, and in May 2018, WHO Headquarters had validated Nepal for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem.
Detailed explanation-4: -Trachoma is hyperendemic in many of the poorest and most rural areas of Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.