<prompt> Which is the first country in south east Asia to have eliminated trachoma?IndiaNepalBangladeshPakistan  <response>: 21 May 2018 - The World Health Organization WHO has validated Nepal for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem - a milestone, as the country becomes the first in WHOs South-East Asia Region to defeat the worlds leading infectious cause of blindness. Several criteria are used to assess a countrys claim for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. These include: Less than 5 of children aged 1-9 years have signs of active trachoma trachomatous inflammation-follicular, which can be treated with antibiotics, in each previously-endemic district; Less than 0.2 of people aged 15 years and older have trachomatous trichiasis, which requires eyelid surgery, in each previously-endemic district; and A health system which can identify and manage new cases of trachomatous trichiasis. 