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Regional Inequalities in Trachoma Prevention in Ethiopia: A Meta-Analysis. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Trachoma remains a significant public health problem in Ethiopia, particularly affecting children. Mothers play a crucial role in implementing preventive practices that interrupt trachoma transmission. Therefore, this systematic review and meta‐analysis seek to address Regional Inequalities in Trachoma Prevention in ...
Asmare ZA, Yeshiwas AG, Bayeh GM, Tsega TD, Tsega SS, Gebeyehu AA, Yemata GA, Anteneh RM, Ejigu AG, Ahmed AF, Yigzaw ZA, Temesgen A, Kebede AM, Mekonen H, Enawgaw AS, Yirdaw G, Mekonnen BA, Alemayehu MA, Gashu ZE, Yenew C.   +19 more
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Prevalence, Treatment, and Outcomes of Corneal Disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Clin Exp Ophthalmol
ABSTRACT Background To synthesise available evidence on the prevalence, treatment strategies, and outcomes of corneal disease affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, and to identify gaps in the existing literature. Methods A systematic review with narrative synthesis was conducted in accordance with PRISMA 2020 guidelines.
van der Nagel A, Cool D, Kandel H, Watson S.   +3 more
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Surgical output within the Fast Track Initiative against trachoma in Amhara region, Ethiopia

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2022
Introduction: Trachomatous trichiasis (TT) is the advanced stage of trachoma where lashes touch the globe of the eye causing permanent damage. Without eyelid surgery, TT can lead to irreversible blindness.
Begashaw Hailemariam, Eshetu Sata, Mengesha Halefom, Andrew R Deathe, Mulat Zerihun, Kimberly A Jensen, E Kelly Callahan, Melkamu Beyene, Wim Adriaensen, Philip Owiti, Mbazi Senkoro, Maria Zolfo, Scott D Nash   +12 more
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Optimizing cluster survey designs for estimating trachomatous inflammation–follicular within trachoma control programs

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
: Objectives: The World Health Organization recommends mass drug administration (MDA) with azithromycin to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. MDA decisions are based on prevalence estimates from two-stage cluster surveys.
Julia W. Gallini, Eshetu Sata, Mulat Zerihun, Berhanu Melak, Mahteme Haile, Taye Zeru, Demelash Gessese, Zebene Ayele, Zerihun Tadesse, E. Kelly Callahan, Scott D. Nash, Paul S. Weiss   +11 more
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Maternal Perceptions and Practices in Trachoma Prevention: A Descriptive and Correlational Analysis Using the Health Belief Model in Rural Ethiopia. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Trachoma remains a leading cause of preventable blindness in Ethiopia, where maternal preventive practices are critical for interrupting transmission. However, the psychosocial and perceptual landscape shaping these practices in high‐burden rural communities is poorly characterized.
Asmare ZA, Yeshiwas AG, Bayeh GM, Tsega TD, Tsega SS, Gebeyehu AA, Yemata GA, Anteneh RM, Ejigu AG, Ahmed AF, Yigzaw ZA, Temesgen A, Kebede AM, Mekonen H, Enawgaw AS, Yirdaw G, Mekonnen BA, Alemayehu MA, Gashu ZE, Yenew C.   +19 more
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Reaching remote Amazonian communities to eliminate trachoma [PDF]

Community Eye Health Journal, 2017
Worldwide, many indigenous peoples are at risk of developing trachoma, a bacterial eye disease that disproportionately affects the world’s poorest communities.
Julian Trujillo Trujillo, Tim Jesudason, Girija Sankar   +2 more
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Current trends in trachoma in a previously Hyperendemic area

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 1998
In response to reports of an excessive number of cases of trachoma at the end of 1995 from the western parts of the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 837 children in the age-group 1-10 years were examined in three villages from where the maximum ...
Study Group The Trachoma
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The burden of trachoma in Ayod County of Southern Sudan. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008
BACKGROUND:Blindness due to trachoma is avoidable through Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial hygiene and Environmental improvements (SAFE). Recent surveys have shown trachoma to be a serious cause of blindness in Southern Sudan.
Jonathan D King, Jeremiah Ngondi, Gideon Gatpan, Ben Lopidia, Steve Becknell, Paul M Emerson   +5 more
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A systematic review of historical and contemporary evidence of trachoma endemicity in the Pacific Islands. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
INTRODUCTION:Trachoma is endemic in several Pacific Island countries. The aims of this study were to (a) identify future trachoma mapping needs in the Pacific and (b) to examine whether any temporal trends in trachoma prevalence could be ascertained from
Becca L Handley, Chrissy H Roberts, Robert Butcher   +2 more
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Targeting antibiotics to households for trachoma control. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Mass drug administration (MDA) is part of the current trachoma control strategy, but it can be costly and results in many uninfected individuals receiving treatment.
Anthony W Solomon, Solomon, AW, David C. W. Mabey, Manoj Gambhir, Sheila K West, West, SK, Sheila K. West, Gambhir Manoj, Anthony W. Solomon, Bailey Robin L., Basáñez María-Gloria, María-Gloria Basáñez, Bailey, RL, David C W Mabey, Basanez, M-G, Isobel M. Blake, Basáñez, María-Gloria, Grassly, NC, Nicholas C Grassly, Mabey, DCW, Solomon, Anthony W, Gambhir, Manoj, Blake Isobel M., Blake, Isobel M, Solomon Anthony W., Burton, Matthew J, Burton Matthew J., Mabey David C. W., Grassly, Nicholas C, Robin L Bailey, Bailey, Robin L, Blake, IM, Gambhir, M, Matthew J. Burton, West, Sheila K, Grassly Nicholas C., Nicholas C. Grassly, Isobel M Blake, Matthew J Burton, Mabey, David CW, West Sheila K., Burton, MJ, Robin L. Bailey   +42 more
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