Orbis Sightlines

Trachoma & COVID-19: Tackling Infectious Disease


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Dr. Hunter Cherwek (host) walks us through some of the ways COVID has impacted Orbis’s sight-saving work around the world. Dr. Danny Haddad, Orbis’s Chief of Program, discusses how the fight against blinding trachoma intersects with efforts to control the spread of coronavirus. Dr. Alemayehu Sisay, Country Director, tells us how Orbis Ethiopia has grown and expanded over the last two decades, and what’s happening on the ground now.

For more information on trachoma and trichiasis: www.orbis.org/en/avoidable-blindness/trachoma-trichiasis

For more information on our guests:

Dr. Danny Haddad: www.orbis.org/en/about-us/orbis-leadership/chief-of-program-danny-haddad

Dr. Alemayehu Sisay: www.orbis.org/en/people/heroes-of-orbis/dr-alemayehu-sisay

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Orbis SightlinesBy Orbis International