Pfizer and world health organization hail Morocco's efforts trachoma control efforts

Pfizer, the World giant pharmaceutical group, and the world health organization (WHO), hailed Morocco's sustained efforts to combat trachoma and blindness diseases.

At a ceremony held lately in Geneva on the fringes of the WHO 52nd assembly in the presence of Moroccan health minister, Abdelouahed Fassi, representatives of Pfizer and WHO praised

Morocco's program against all blinding diseases and especially against trachoma which is widely spread in southern Morocco.

To this end, the Pfizer delegate said his group has decided to back Morocco's efforts through the donation of

$ 750,000 cash and 1 million doses of the Zithromax(R) antibiotic.

The grants will also help Morocco strengthen its health education programs, the Pfizer delegates said.