HELPING TO END TRACHOMA

Rotary’s 2017-18 International President, Australia’s Ian Riseley, wants a trachoma-free Australia by 2021, Rotary’s 100th year in Australia. We are the world's only developed country with trachoma, an infectious eye disease that can be prevented with good hygiene practices.

Projects are focused on the prevention of trachoma and other hygiene related infectious diseases in our least advantaged, most trachoma-endemic regions in Australia. It is particularly prevalent in our younger indigenous population.

Click here to go to the End Trachoma by 2020 website to learn more about projects that we can initiate to put an end to the disease.