From IRIN, a story about how the lack of sanitation in Nigeria exposes people to a disease that causes blindness.
Lack of access to clean toilets or an adequate water supply, living in close proximity to animals, and poor public health awareness have helped put 2.3 million people in northern Nigeria’s Borno State at risk of contracting trachoma, a viral infection causing blindness.
But practising simple good hygiene and stopping open defecation can significantly reduce the chances of contracting the disease, says NGO Helen Keller International (HKI).
Two-thirds of Borno’s 15 districts are trachoma-endemic, according to an HKI survey, with half of those infected, primary-school-age children.
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