Trachoma is a health issue for various reasons. Firstly, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are six times more likely to go blind and about 94 per cent of vision loss for Indigenous Australian adults is preventable or treatable (The Fred Hollows Foundation, 2014). Furthermore, trachoma is the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness with an estimated 84 million people currently having active trachoma and about 7•6 million having trachomatous trichiasis (Wright & Taylor, 2005). Shockingly however, and as mentioned previously, blinding Trachoma is still present in Aboriginal communities in Australia even though it is a preventable disease making Australia the only developed country to still have the blinding infectious disease
