{"id":233231,"date":"2026-05-14T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-validated-by-who-as-having-eliminated-trachoma-as-a-public-health-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:54:15","slug":"tunisia-validated-by-who-as-having-eliminated-trachoma-as-a-public-health-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-validated-by-who-as-having-eliminated-trachoma-as-a-public-health-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Validated By WHO As Having Eliminated Trachoma As a Public Health Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Tunisia as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. This is a major milestone in the country&#8217;s public health journey, coming after decades of sustained national effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;I congratulate Tunisia on this historic public health achievement,&#8221; said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. &#8220;Eliminating trachoma shows what long-term political commitment, strong primary health care and teamwork can do. Tunisia has proven that even&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605140268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Tunisia as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. This is a major milestone in the country&#8217;s public health journey, coming after decades of sustained national effort. &#8220;I congratulate Tunisia on this historic public health achievement,&#8221; said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. &#8220;Eliminating trachoma shows what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":233232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681445:7e5cea89f135db205e80a4dbcb3109ab:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,17149,5731,257,9981,5751,254,6300,4703,653,7899],"class_list":["post-233231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eliminated","tag-health","tag-news","tag-problem","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trachoma","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-validated"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681445:7e5cea89f135db205e80a4dbcb3109ab:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}