Nationwide integrated mapping of three neglected tropical diseases in Togo: countrywide implementation of a novel approach.

Objective: To conduct a nationwide integrated neglected tropical disease (NTD) prevalence survey to define the need for public health interventions using an innovative mapping protocol.

Methods: Two villages were selected in every peripheral health unit in endemic districts: 29 districts for schistosomiasis and STH, 15 of them for trachoma. In each village, 15 children aged 6-9 years at a randomly selected school were tested.

[What do we know about trachoma in the economically weakest infantile population of Kara in Togo?].

Purpose: To describe the distribution of the trachoma in the infantile population of Kara region.

Materials And Methods: A descriptive cross sectional investigation has been achieved in 6 sanitary districts of Kara's region in November 2009. In each of the 2 villages of the sanitary area of every peripheral health unit (PHU), 15 schoolchildren aged of 6 to 9 years then 35 children of the community aged of 1 to 5 years have been examined to search signs of trachoma with the help of a lamp wipes coupled of a binocular loupe (2.