Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
- Written by Hugh Taylor, Melbourne Laureate Professor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
This article is the first in our three-part series on the blinding, deafening and sometimes deadly conditions in Indigenous Australian children that have little to no impact on their non-Indigenous counterparts. The next two articles will look at rheumatic heart fever and disease; and otitis media.
Many people don’t know this, but Indigenous...
