Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter joined Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)
today to commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the International Trachoma
Initiative (ITI), an independent, not-for-profit program dedicated to the
elimination of blinding trachoma as a public health concern. Trachoma is an
infectious eye disease that is a leading cause of blindness and suffering in
the poorest regions of the world. Pfizer has provided hundreds of millions of
doses of the antibiotic Zithromax® (azithromycin) to help the global campaign
wipe out blinding trachoma by the year 2020.
"The Pfizer donation of Zithromax was momentous in
trachoma control, and The Carter Center was pleased to go to scale in trachoma
endemic countries to get the medicine into the villages and demonstrate the
world could end blinding trachoma. Read more.
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