The elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Togo: Successes and challenges

AW Bakoubayi, DAY Gadah, P Gnossike… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background As of May 2022, 15 countries have declared that they have reached their
trachoma elimination targets, but only 13 of them, including Togo, have been validated by …

Trachoma-associated morbidity and mortality in Brazil: an ecological study focusing on hospitalization and mortality data, 2000− 2022

AMS Maciel, AF Ferreira, NMGS Almeida… - Revista da Sociedade …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Background: Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. It is a
neglected tropical disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. The objective of this study …

Socio-ecological factors influencing vulnerability to trachoma disease: a new tool applied in five pre-saharan provinces, Morocco

A Karmaoui, S El Jaafari, H Chaachouay, L Hajji - GeoJournal, 2023 - Springer
This study intentions to appraise the relative vulnerability of the trachoma disease in some
provinces of the pre-Sahara of Morocco. In this region, numerous socio-ecological risk …

[PDF][PDF] Australian Trachoma Surveillance Report update

A Jaworski, C Cowling, GC Popovic… - Communicable …, 2025 - health.gov.au
Australia is the only high-income country where trachoma has been endemic, defined as an
overall trachoma prevalence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 5–9 …

Caractérisation de la réponse locale à l'infection conjonctivale à Chlamydia trachomatis aiguë et chronique

E Paulet - 2023 - theses.hal.science
Le trachome est une kératoconjonctivite bactérienne due à Chlamydia trachomatis. Malgré
de vastes campagnes d'éradication le trachome reste l'une des principales causes de cécité …

[HTML][HTML] Trachoma

AJ James - Eye Diseases-Recent Advances, New Perspectives …, 2023 - intechopen.com
Trachoma is the most common infectious cause of blindness worldwide. In children,
repeated episodes of infection within cohorts and family with Chlamydia trachomatis would …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of eye health surveys and partnerships in The Gambia

H FAAL, A HYDARA, I MACTAGGART, M BURTON… - eyenews.uk.com
In the 1980s, population-based data on the prevalence of vision impairment and blindness
in sub-Saharan Africa were incredibly scarce. One survey had been undertaken in southern …