Sabtu, 25 Januari 2014

The Carter Center: 25 Years of Waging Peace, Fighting Disease

The Carter Center: 25 Years of Waging Peace, Fighting DiseaseFor more information on The Carter Center, please visit Overview of the work of The Carter Center around the world. Carter Center...

Survival - neglected diseases in Africa

Survival - neglected diseases in AfricaA report on the community project to help eliminate Schistosomiasis (bilharzia), Lymphatic filariasis (Elephantiasis), Trachoma an 2 other tropical diseases,...

Being blind is hard. Being blind in Africa is harder

Being blind is hard. Being blind in Africa is harderOur new TV Ad and associated campaign is based on the theme 'Being blind is hard. Being blind in Africa is harder'. What would you miss most about losing you...

The Carter Center's Trachoma Control Program

The Carter Center's Trachoma Control ProgramFor more information on The Carter Center, please visit Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. The Car...

Improving the Lives of Women Through Public Health Initiatives (The Carter Center)

Improving the Lives of Women Through Public Health Initiatives (The Carter Center)To learn more about The Carter Center, please visit The connection between human rights and good health among some of the world's...

Going Back to Market

Going Back to MarketAfter suffering from trachoma for 10 years, Dawi Denku undergoes a simple eyelid surgery to correct the damage, and gets her life back. She lives in Ethiopia...

WHO: Neglected Tropical Diseases PSA 2010

WHO: Neglected Tropical Diseases PSA 2010Neglected tropical diseases blight the lives of a billion people worldwide and threaten the health of millions more. These diseases cause extensive pain, suf...

Notre Dame Neglected Tropical Disease Awareness

Notre Dame Neglected Tropical Disease AwarenessFive University of Notre Dame undergraduates embark on a quest to raise awareness of Neglected Tropical Diseases. You can affect change. For more information...

Pioneering Trachoma and Malaria Control in Ethiopia (The Carter Center)

Pioneering Trachoma and Malaria Control in Ethiopia (The Carter Center)For more information on The Carter Center, please visit Impoverished communities in Amhara Region, Ethiopiaâ€"the world's most trac...

Together We Can Eliminate Blinding Trachoma

Together We Can Eliminate Blinding TrachomaThe International Trachoma Initiative works with Pfizer Inc and other international partners to eliminate blinding trachoma, an infectious eye disease that a...

AMREF The Right To Sight

AMREF  The Right To SightTrachoma is a communicable and infectious eye disease and is the leading cause of avoidable blindness in Kenya. This clip tells the story of how communities ...

WIPO Re:Search - Press Conference

WIPO Re:Search - Press ConferenceLeading Pharmaceutical Companies Offer IP and Expertise for use in Treating Neglected Tropical Diseases as part of WIPO Re:Search Press conference October 26...

Neglected Tropical Diseases: Become Aware

Neglected Tropical Diseases: Become AwareThis is a project that I made for my class at Notre Dame. It's purpose is to make people aware of treatable diseases that affect more people worldwide than A...

Neglected Tropical Diseases

Neglected Tropical DiseasesOn the 10th of November the Neglected Tropical Diseases unit of the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation launched the Master Plan on tackling Trachoma, I...

Antibiotics For Eye Disease Saving Ethiopia's Children (The Carter Center)

Antibiotics For Eye Disease Saving Ethiopia's Children (The Carter Center)For more information on The Carter Center, please visit An antibiotic treatment given to save children's eyesight is actually sav...

Trachoma and Water - World Water Day 2012

Trachoma and Water - World Water Day 2012This video was produced by the International Trachoma Initiative for World Water Day 2012. Trachoma is a disease that blinds one person every 15 minutes. But...

Integrated Mapping and Trachoma

Integrated Mapping and TrachomaQ & A with Els Mathieu of CDC about integrated mapping.

Collaboration: WASH and Trachoma

Collaboration: WASH and TrachomaAn interview with Stephanie Ogden, WASH Coordinator for the International Trachoma Initiative and Children Without Worms.

IHHP - CLEAN FACE STRONG EYES- Kalkaringi Mob.mp4

IHHP - CLEAN FACE STRONG EYES- Kalkaringi Mob.mp4Katherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation are working together with the Gurindji people to eradicate Trachoma. IHHP spent time in Kalkarinji and Dag...

Ending Neglected Tropical Diseases: Mission in a Minute

Ending Neglected Tropical Diseases: Mission in a MinuteThroughout the world, seven neglected tropical diseases change the way people live. Kids stay home from school and parents can't go to work when they're infe...

Roll of Honor of the Public Health Service 1936 USPHS

Roll of Honor of the Public Health Service 1936 USPHSThis clip is from the end of the 1936 film Work of the Public Health Service, by the US Public Health Service -- the Roll of Honor list of all the PHS men an...

ORBIS EyeReport 22 - Mamite

ORBIS EyeReport 22 - MamiteMamite å'Œå®¶äººç"Ÿæ´»åœ¨åŸƒå¡žä¿„æ¯"亞å--部一個叫Konso的小æ'落裏。å'Œå¾ˆå¤šæ'æ°'一樣,Mamite一家靠耕種維ç"Ÿã€‚Konso人口十分密集,卻æ²'有æ¸...水水源,衛ç"Ÿè¨­å‚™äº¦å¾ˆè²§ä¹ã€‚因此,ç--...æ¯'在這裡散æ'­å¾--特別快,Mamite多年前已ç¶"å--細菌感æŸ"患上砂眼,不能做家務之餘,更要依賴孫å...'來ç...®èœã€æ¸...æ½"å'Œæ""水。她的孫女亦因要ç...§é¡§Mam...

Like a metal brush

Like a metal brushAn agonizing disease borne of a lack of clean water and poor sanitation, trachoma causes permanent blindness if left untreated. The eyelid turns inward and t...

Seeing a Way Around Fear of Eyelid Surgery (The Carter Center)

Seeing a Way Around Fear of Eyelid Surgery (The Carter Center)For more information on The Carter Center, please visit In an effort to save the sight of every trichiasis sufferer, The Carter C...

Antibiotics for Atypical Infections (Antibiotics - Lecture 7)

Antibiotics for Atypical Infections (Antibiotics - Lecture 7)A lecture on the antibiotics used for treating infections caused be atypical bacteria - specifically Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, Chlamydophila, Rickettsia, and Le...

The Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Impact of Neglected Tropical DiseasesThough neglected tropical diseases have been just that -- neglected -- their impacts are being felt in the U.S., especially in Southern states. One NTD, Chag...

Rainbow: Brain disorders

Rainbow: Brain disordersDr Marthanda Verma talks about congenital brain disorders in this edition of Rainbow.

Trachoma

TrachomaThis video is an in-depth explanation of Trachoma, what causes it, perpetuates it, and how we can control this neglected tropical disease.

Kenya Trachoma Eye Disease

Kenya Trachoma Eye DiseaseHealth workers in Kenya say more than 60000 people are living with Trachoma, an infectious eye disease that can cause blindness if not treated early. Mohamm...