Kenya and Tanzania ran a cross-border mass drug administration exercise against trachoma July 12-16. The campaign aimed to administer antibiotics to over 1.3 million people in the pastoral Maa community living across the two East African countries. In Kenya, 576,091 people in Narok county and 358,574 people in Kajiado county were targeted. Meanwhile, 228,360 and 161,367 people were targeted in the Tanzanian counties of Ngorongoro and Longido, respectively. Kenyan Ministry of Health press release
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