Trachoma: the beginning of the end?

D Haddad - Community Eye Health, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Blinding trachoma, one of the oldest known infectious eye diseases, may be facing its end.
Formerly the world's leading cause of preventable blindness, trachoma has brought physical …

[HTML][HTML] Ten years left to eliminate blinding trachoma

D Haddad - Community eye health, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tackling trachoma is a complex challenge. In order to implement all four components of the
SAFE strategy on a national level (surgery for trichiasis, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and …

Milestones in the fight to eliminate trachoma

SK West - Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Trachoma, a chronic conjunctivitis that can result in vision loss from trichiasis, is
targeted for global elimination by 2020. Several milestones in the long process towards …

Doyne Lecture: trachoma, is it history?

HR Taylor - Eye, 2009 - nature.com
Trachoma has been known since pre-Pharaonic times and this infectious cause of blindness
is targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for elimination by 2020. During the 19th …

The real challenge: can we discover why trachoma is disappearing before it's gone?

J House, B Gaynor, H Taylor… - International …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Once the leading cause of blindness worldwide, trachoma now appears to be disappearing
in many developing countries. This is true even in areas without specific trachoma control …

[PDF][PDF] Global Alliance for the Elimination of Blinding Trachoma by 2020: Progress report on elimination of trachoma, 2012

World Health Organization - Weekly Epidemiological Record …, 2013 - apps.who.int
Trachoma is an infectious eye disease that causes a characteristic roughening of the inner
surface of the eyelids and can lead to blindness. It is among the oldest diseases known to …

[HTML][HTML] What's new in trachoma control

J Kumaresan, M Burton, A Solomon… - Comm Eye …, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ten years after the Community Eye Health Journal first devoted an entire issue to trachoma
(Vol. 7, Issue 14), and five years since its last trachoma-focused edition (Vol. 12, Issue 32) …

[HTML][HTML] Manuals, guidelines and toolkits to support the elimination of blinding trachoma

P Courtright, C MacArthur - Community Eye Health, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The year 2020 is the target date for the elimination of blinding trachoma as a public health
problem. There has been great progress, and there is unprecedented funding available …

Can we eliminate trachoma?

T Lietman, A Fry - British journal of ophthalmology, 2001 - bjo.bmj.com
Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. 1 Although it
disappeared long ago from Western Europe and the United States, trachoma is still as …

Trachoma: time to talk eradication

TM Lietman, CE Oldenburg, JD Keenan - Ophthalmology, 2020 - aaojournal.org
Trachoma was once the leading cause of blindness, endemic in nearly every country of the
world. 1 As recently as the 1990s, trachoma still ranked second only to cataract as a cause …