Progress Towards Elimination of Trachoma as a Public Health Problem in Eritrea: Results of a Systematic Review and Nine Population-based Prevalence Surveys Conducted in 2014-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Progress Towards Elimination of Trachoma as a Public Health Problem in Eritrea: Results of a Systematic Review and Nine Population-based Prevalence Surveys Conducted in 2014

Published:2018-12-28 Issue:sup1 Volume:25 Page:121-130
ISSN:0928-6586
Container-title:Ophthalmic Epidemiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Author:

Tesfazion Andeberhan¹,Zecarias Alem¹,Zewengiel Solomon¹,Willis Rebecca²,Mebrahtu Goitom³,Capa Eva⁴,Mpyet Caleb⁵⁶⁷,Al-Khatib Tawfik⁸⁹¹⁰,Courtright Paul⁷,Solomon Anthony W.¹¹¹²¹³

Affiliation:

1. National Program for the Prevention of Blindness, Ministry of Health, Asmara, Eritrea

2. Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GA, USA

3. Clinical Services, Ministry of Health, Asmara, Eritrea

4. The Fred Hollows Foundation, Sydney, Australia

5. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria

6. Sightsavers, Kaduna, Nigeria

7. Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology, Division of Ophthalmology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

8. Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Sana’a, Sana’a, Yemen

9. Prevention of Blindness Program, Ministry of Public Health & Population, Sana’a, Yemen

10. Eye Unit, Al-Thawra Hospital, Sana’a, Yemen

11. Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

12. London Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases Research, London, UK

13. Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Funder

Department for International Development

United States Agency for International Developmen

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Subject

Ophthalmology,Epidemiology

Link

http://tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09286586.2018.1545036

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