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Trachoma: an underdiagnosed disease revealed by a survey carried out at Jaú, São Paulo.
BMC Ophthalmol
January 2024
Surgical Specialties and Anesthesiology Department, Botucatu Medical School, State University of São Paulo- UNESP, Avenida Professor Mário Rubens Montenegro, Botucatu, São Paulo, 18618-970, Brazil.
Background: Trachoma is a notifiable disease in the state of São Paulo- Brazil. However, in Jaú, a municipality located in this state, in the last 10 years there are no records of cases. This study purpose is to assess if there are cases of inflammatory trachoma in schoolchildren aged 1 to 9 years in the municipality of Jaú as well if it is possible to detect clusters areas of the disease to establish elimination programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF'Follow the cattle': a joint cross-border trachoma MDA perspective.
Int Health
December 2023
Ministry of Health Tanzania, Tanzania.
Trachoma, a disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, is the leading infectious cause of blindness. To fight it, endemic East African countries adopted the World Health Organization's SAFE Strategy, targeting surgery, antibiotics through mass drug administration (MDA), facial cleanliness and environmental improvement. Trachoma persists among nomadic communities along the Kenya-Uganda and Kenya-Tanzania borders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
October 2023
Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.
Reducing the morbidities caused by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is a central aim of ongoing disease control programmes. The broad spectrum of pathogens under the umbrella of NTDs lead to a range of negative health outcomes, from malnutrition and anaemia to organ failure, blindness and carcinogenesis. For some NTDs, the most severe clinical manifestations develop over many years of chronic or repeated infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAddressing neglected tropical diseases in Africa: a health equity perspective.
Glob Health Res Policy
July 2023
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
Africa accounts for over one-third of the global burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Although continental efforts have been made to combat these diseases, there still exists a significant gap in the fight, ranging from a lack of data to multisectoral participation and, most critically, health inequity. Here, we assess the effort made to combat challenges caused by health disparities to prevent and control neglected tropical diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBaseline, Impact and Surveillance Trachoma Prevalence Surveys in Burundi, 2018-2021.
Ophthalmic Epidemiol
December 2024
Département En Charge des Maladies Tropicales, National Integrated Programme for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases and Blindness (PNIMTNC), Bujumbura, Burundi.
Article Synopsis
- Trachoma, caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, can lead to permanent vision loss, prompting Burundi to focus on its elimination since 2007 as part of addressing neglected tropical diseases.
- A comprehensive study conducted between 2018 and 2021 involved baseline, impact, and surveillance surveys across multiple evaluation units, assessing the prevalence of trachoma and related factors in around 63,800 individuals.
- Results showed a decrease in trachoma prevalence among children and generally low rates in older populations, along with high access to safe drinking water, indicating that with ongoing efforts, Burundi could achieve trachoma elimination successfully.
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