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CNN's "Impact Your World" Features Carter Center Trachoma Control Program

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CNN's "Impact Your World" Features
Carter Center Trachoma Control Program

August 5, 2009





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.

Click video player to watch CNN's coverage of this pioneering effort in Ethiopia.


To support Carter Center efforts such as this, click here >





For additional coverage of this important effort, listen to WABE (Atlanta's National Public Radio affiliate) series >>

Read bio: Dr. Paul Emerson, director, Carter Center Trachoma Control Program >>

Learn more about the Carter Center's Trachoma Control Program >>

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