Uganda Sets New Target As Efforts to End Trachoma By 2020 Fail

Kampala, Uganda — The Vector Disease Control Division in the Health Ministry has extended the deadline for the elimination of Trachoma from the country from 2020 to 2022. This follows the failure by the Health Ministry to eliminate Trachoma from Uganda in line with the 2007 resolution, which set the 2020 deadline.

The World Health Organization (WHO) had set a global goal to eliminate all the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) by 2020. However, several countries have failed to achieve the target due to the recurrence of the disease. At the WHO 11th meeting in Geneva Switzerland in 2018, the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases recommended that WHO initiates a consultative process with the global NTD community to set new targets and milestones from 2020 to 2030.

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