Indigenous communities pushing back against eye disease

Fewer Indigenous kids contract eye disease trachoma and more adults are having cataract surgery. (Bunthorn Tha/AAP PHOTOS)

The prevalence of a highly infectious eye disease among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children has declined by 87 per cent, data shows.

Active trachoma among Indigenous children aged five to nine from at-risk communities was 1.8 per cent in 2023, down from 14 per cent in 2007, according to an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report.