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This guide has been written for managers of national and district trachoma control programmes. It sets out, step-by-step, what is needed to assess the magnitude and extent of the trachoma problem in
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These standard operating procedures are intended to be used when a Member State wishes to request validation of national elimination of trachoma as a public health problem following implementation of the SAFE strategy,1 which comprises: surgery for
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Weekly epidemiological record 18 July 2025
This report summarizes application of the SAFE strategy against trachoma during 2024. It includes estimates of the global population at risk of trachoma b
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Resource Platform
Trichiasis surgery for trachoma
recommended
3rd edition
Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. In April 2023, it was a public health problem
in approximately 40 countries, with an estimated 116 million people at risk and 1.5 million people affected
by the late blinding stage o
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The Lancet Volume 384, Issue 9960p2142-2152December 13, 2014
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Flip charts for trachoma community volunteers
Community Flipcharts
Video. Nieba was born and raised in the village of N’Gara in Mali. Nieba suffered from trichiasis, an advanced stage of trachoma whereby the eyelashes turn inwards and scratch the cornea, leading to irreversible blindness.
Over the course of their lives, women spend more time with children than men. Because young children are the reservoirs of trachoma infection, contact with them can result in more frequent trachoma
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Creative Development and Formative Research Report
Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. It is one of 18 neglected
tropical diseases (NTDs) that affect over one billion of the world’s poorest people.
In 2023, the partnership between the Government of Canada and PAHO was launched to implement the project to improve the health of communities, women, and children by eliminating trachoma as a public health problem. In this initiative, through a cont
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Version 1: March 9, 2021. A living document
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
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Sources: Weekly Epidemiological Record (data as of 15 April 2024); *GET2020 database (October 2024)
ources: Weekly Epidemiological Record (April 2024); *GET2020 database (October 2024), **Tropical Data (June 2024)
Sources: Weekly Epidemiological Record (data as of 15 April 2024
