About 30 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau, more than 20,000 people live and work across the 88 Bijagos Islands. These people live in the final district in the country where trachoma infection is a public health problem.
Trachoma is a neglected tropical disease that most commonly affects people in hard-to-reach areas, such as the Bijagos Islands. So the logistics of ensuring we reach these people, to provide vital medication to protect them from trachoma, takes a huge amount of planning and collaboration.
Here, Sightsavers programme officer Iliezer Gomes Bidjonque captures what could be Guinea-Bissau’s last mass drug administration campaign for trachoma before the disease is eliminated from the country. His videos highlight the challenges that our teams face as they travel to remote areas, to ensure that everyone is treated and no one is left behind.