• Nepal has a very successful, focused program" said Bolton, who also met with Shekhar Sharma of the Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS)/National Trachoma Program in Kathmandu. (trachoma.org)
  • The national trachoma control program in Mauritania partners with Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF), OPC, WHO, Bouamatou Foundation and ITI. (trachoma.org)
  • To help guide national trachoma elimination planning, we set out to estimate trachoma prevalence in 43 suspected-endemic evaluation units (EUs) of 15 further districts.Methods: We planned a population-based trachoma prevalence survey in each EU. (bvsalud.org)
  • The trachoma program has reached more than 720,000 people, and more than 1.7 million doses of Zithromax® have been distributed in 19 moughataas (districts) in 7 endemic regions. (trachoma.org)
  • The four visits to ITI-supported countries in the first month of 2015 demonstrate ITI's firm commitment to helping trachoma endemic countries reach elimination goals by 2020. (trachoma.org)
  • ITI Senior Program Associates Birgit Bolton and Joanna Pritchard visited trachoma programs in Nepal and Mauritania, which are close to reaching their elimination goals. (trachoma.org)
  • each EU requires trichiasis and TF prevalence estimates below these thresholds to achieve elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. (bvsalud.org)
  • The methods she is studying use blood spots and ocular swabs to test for the presence of antibody and infection, in addition to looking for clinical signs of trachoma by flipping eyelids. (trachoma.org)
  • Because the current outbreak of extremely drug-resistant typhoid in Pakistan limits domestic use of azithromycin mass drug administration, other interventions against active trachoma should be considered here. (bvsalud.org)
  • Trachoma is initiated during childhood following repeated conjunctival infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, which causes a chronic inflammatory response in some individuals that leads to scarring and in-turning of the eyelids in later life. (bvsalud.org)
  • Emerson met women in Mecha woreda, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia, who had received surgery for trichiasis, the final painful stage of trachoma that can lead to blindness. (trachoma.org)
  • Individuals with the advanced stage of trachoma known as trichiasis present the biggest challenge. (trachoma.org)
  • Two-stage cluster sampling was employed, using the systems and approaches of the Global Trachoma Mapping Project. (bvsalud.org)
  • Household-level access to an improved source of water for face and hand washing ranged by EU from 37% to 100%.Conclusion: Trachoma was a public health problem in 21% (9/42) of the EUs. (bvsalud.org)
  • They hope this will be their last year of treatment with MDA," said Pritchard, referring to the mass administration of Zithromax® to treat and prevent trachoma. (trachoma.org)
  • In Nepal, Bolton worked with Dr. Sheila West, a trachoma expert from Johns Hopkins University who is working with the Nepalese trachoma program to implement a study to determine the best way to conduct surveillance. (trachoma.org)
  • In this work, we evaluate the plausibility of an Artificial Intelligence model to augment or replace human image graders in the evaluation/diagnosis of trachomatous inflammation-follicular (TF). (nih.gov)
  • Efforts are being made to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem globally. (bvsalud.org)