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Queen's Fund bankrolls trachoma in 12 counties

Elizabeth Partoti, during an interview with The Standard, at her home. [Mercy Kahenda, Standard]

Queen Elizabeth II took keen interest in trachoma, an infectious blindness diseases that ravages Kenyans mostly in Kajiado County.

Globally, trachoma causes blindness every 15 minutes according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and which the Queen sought to eliminate when she launched the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust Trachoma programme in 2014.

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