Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) recently put forth a Global Strategy on Digital
Health 2020–2025 with several countries having already achieved key milestones. We …

Background Self‐administered survey questionnaires are an important data collection tool in
clinical practice, public health research and epidemiology. They are ideal for achieving a …

Despite continued efforts to improve health systems worldwide, emerging pathogen
epidemics remain a major public health concern. Effective response to such outbreaks relies …

Purpose: To complete the baseline trachoma map worldwide by conducting population-
based surveys in an estimated 1238 suspected endemic districts of 34 countries. Methods: A …

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted essential health services, including those provided by
national neglected tropical disease (NTD) programs. Most mass drug administration (MDA) …

Technology continues to impact healthcare around the world. This provides great
opportunities, but also risks. These risks are compounded in low-resource settings where …

At baseline in 2006, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia, was the most trachoma-
endemic region in the country. Trachoma impact surveys (TIS) were conducted in all districts …

There is growing use of household surveys by conservation organizations as they seek to
measure the social impacts of conservation initiatives, especially in developing countries …

Background From 2011 to 2015, seven trachoma impact surveys in 150 districts across
Amhara, Ethiopia, included in their design a nested study to estimate the zonal prevalence …

Trachoma control in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, where all districts were once endemic,
began in 2001 and attained full scale-up of the Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness, and …