A four-year-old girl prepares for an eye examination at the ophthalmology theatre of Quelimane Central Hospital in Mozambique. (Kang-Chun Cheng/The Xylom)
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Climate-Induced Floods Wash Away USAID-Abandoned Mozambique’s Efforts to Eliminate Trachoma
Before Trump dismantled USAID, Mozambique had been battling trachoma, an eye disease that causes blindness, especially among children. Now, a lack of stable funding and clean water — made worse by climate-induced cyclones and flooding — threatens to reverse the country’s modest progress.