Down in this hallway, though, you're going to go to the contagious and infectious disease hospital for diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, tuberculosis, trachoma.
Top of that list, Togo, which became the first country to eliminate four of those diseases, including trachoma, the world's most common infectious cause of blindness.
The World Health Organization says, trachoma remains in 23 African countries and approximately 105 million people on the continent, live in areas at high risk for infection.
I do visit homesteads and tell people to how to prevent diseases by having their own initiative, to have that facial cleanliness those without trachoma and even those with trachoma, said Mortai.
Sadi Moussa, the Carter Center Senior representative in Mali, believes the success of his organization's trachoma program could boost efforts, to combat other neglected tropical diseases like guinea worm.
The director of the Institute looked over his list of recent graduates, settling upon his star pupil, a twenty-year-old who was, herself, partially blind from suffering trachoma as a child.