Thanks to the hard work of the #trachoma community, more than 600 million doses of the drug Azithromycin have been successfully distributed to help eliminate the painful, blinding infection. And now, new research published today in he NEJM Group 's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the same drug could have an another benefit: saving children’s lives. Read how when mass administered in high-mortality settings in sub-Saharan #Africa, azithromycin reduced deaths among children by 13%: International Trachoma Initiative  t #BeatNTDs #childhealth #globalhealth #HealthForAll …see more