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Creative Development and Formative Research Report
Cureus 2024 Jan 16;16(1):e52358. doi: 10.7759/cureus.52358
The second edition of the Women and Trachoma: Achieving Gender Equity in the Implementation of SAFE manual provides an updated resource for realistically increasing, improving, and supporting gender representation within trachoma elimination efforts at all levels. From the trachoma workforce to the ...
Assurer l’égalité des genres dans l’application de la stratégie CHANCE
COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 36 | NUMBER 118 | 2023
Twenty-Fourth Annual Trachoma Control Program Review, Summary Proceedings
Lancet Glob Health 2022; 10: e491–500
Trachoma is an eye infection that for thousands of years caused many people to go blind across all continents. As the result of development and targeted interventions, trachoma is now limited to an estimated 57 countries, often affecting the poorest
populations of the world. Today, more than 2 mill...
Informe de reunión (Ciudad de Panamá, 21 y 22 de octubre del 2019)
COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 33 | NUMBER 110 | 2020
How to successfully apply for, administer, and manage the Zithromax® donation for trachoma elimination
Comment réussir à demander, administrer et gérer les dons de Zithromax® pour l’élimination du trachome
Como aplicar, administrar e gerir com sucesso a doação Zithromax® para eliminação do tracoma
)الرمد الحبيبي( وتوزيعه وإدارته للقضاء عىل التراخوما Zithromax® كيفية التقدم بنجاح للحصول عىل تبرع
Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness (2). It is characterized by repeated
conjunctival infection with particular strains of Chlamydia trachomatis. This scars the conjunctivae and,
in some cases, leads to trichiasis with or without entropion. The abrasive action of eyelashes can
d...
Wiping out Trachoma from Nepal – How Nepal eliminated trachoma as a public health problem
WHO - 2018
La quincuagésima primera Asamblea de la Salud Mundial aprobó la resolución WHA51.11 en
1998, que busca la eliminación mundial del tracoma como problema de salud pública para el 2020
(1). La estrategia recomendada para lograr ese objetivo está encapsulada por las siglas "SAFE", que
represent...
The Fifty-first World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA51.11 in 1998, which targets the
global elimination of trachoma as a public health problem by 2020 (1). The strategy recommended
to achieve that goal is encapsulated by the acronym “SAFE”, which represents: Surgery for
individuals wi...
En 1998, la Cinquante-et-Unième Assemblée mondiale de la Santé a adopté la résolution
WHA51.11 qui vise l’élimination mondiale du trachome en tant que problème de santé publique
à l’horizon 2020 (1). La stratégie recommandée pour atteindre cet objectif est récapitulée dans
le sig...
Contemporary data for causes of vision impairment and blindness form an important basis of recommendations in public health policies. Refreshment of the Global Vision Database with recently published data sources permitted modelling of cause of vision loss data from 1990 to 2015, further disaggregat...
