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- Tunisia eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, validated by WHO on May 14, 2026, becoming the 31st country.
- Tunisia applied the WHO-recommended SAFE (Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness, Environmental improvements) strategy through primary care, schools and screening, and expanded water and sanitation, cutting transmission in the south where half the population had been infected.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the achievement, and a surveillance system now monitors for re-emergence.
