Trachoma: global magnitude of a preventable cause of blindness

2008371 citationsReviewhybrid Open Access

Authors

Silvio Paolo Mariotti · World Health Organization - Pakistan

Donatella Pascolini · World Health Organization

Jennifer Rose‐Nussbaumer · University of California, San Francisco

Abstract

The current estimate of prevalence of trachoma is lower than the previous WHO estimates: this can be explained by the success in implementing control strategy, by more accurate data, as well as by socio-economic development in endemic countries.

Topics & Keywords

Reproductive tract infections research Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment Cervical Cancer and HPV Research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volume 93, Issue 5, pp. 563-568

DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.148494

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