Timor-Leste has good news about eye health. The World Health Organization says trachoma is not a public health problem there any more. Trachoma is an eye disease that can make people blind. Health workers checked children and visited many homes between 2015 and 2017. They found no sign of the disease.
In 2025, a large survey tested 4949 samples from young children across the country. It showed the disease was not spreading. Timor-Leste is the 33rd country in the world to reach this goal. Now the whole WHO South-East Asia Region is free from this problem. WHO hopes the whole world can end trachoma by 2030.