Dr Élia A. dos Reis Amaral

New Capabilities

Led the country's elimination evidence campaign

Timor-Leste was the last country in Southeast Asia where trachoma, the world's leading infectious cause of blindness, still counted as a public health problem. On September 3, 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) validated that the disease is gone, clearing the entire South-East Asia Region.

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