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27 Oct 2016
An interview with Dr Sheila West - what 30 years in the field of trachoma can teach us
“From the very beginning there was a recognition that you needed a multipronged strategy for trachoma.” Dr Sheila West, Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, speaking at the NNN meeting in Washington DC.West has been working in the field of trachoma for 30 years, carrying out research on various aspects of the SAFE strategy in countries such as Tanzania, Niger and...
SAFE strategy
24 Oct 2016
Dirk Engels, WHO, talks profiling NTDs in the Sustainable Development Goal framework and how much progress has been made
“We know that NTDs are intimately linked to poverty. It’s only the poorest on earth who are affected by neglected tropical diseases.” Dirk Engels, the Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization speaking at the annual NNN meeting in Washington DC.“Disease keeps you in poverty and poverty keeps you with disease,” says Engels. He says...
Sustainability
24 Oct 2016
Progress of trachoma mapping in mainland Tanzania: results of baseline surveys from 2012 to 2014
A report on baseline surveys undertaken from 2012 to 2014.
Mapping, surveillance and prevalence
24 Oct 2016
Baseline trachoma surveys in Kaskazini A and Micheweni districts of Zanzibar: results of two population-based prevalence surveys conducted with the Global Trachoma Mapping Project
This study investigates the prevalence of trachomatous inflammation–follicular (TF), and trachomatous trichiasis (TT) in Kaskazini A and Micheweni districts of Zanzibar. 
Mapping, surveillance and prevalence, Trichiasis
20 Oct 2016
Progress for Tanzania - the fight to end trachoma gathers speed
Tanzania, a vast territory in Africa covering around 365 thousand square miles, is home to more than 52 million people.The majority of the population is rural, making access to health programmes and services difficult, and only 15 percent of people have access to a toilet. The country is dealing with 9 of the 18 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) including trachoma - and they continue to be...
Elimination, SAFE strategy
11 Oct 2016
Global Trachoma Mapping Project. Assessment of Trachoma in Cambodia
This assessment aimed to determine whether trachoma was a public health problem requiring intervention in Cambodia.
Mapping, surveillance and prevalence
11 Oct 2016
Perspectives of national coordinators and partners on the work of the Global Trachoma Mapping Project
Research carried out to better understand the implementation experience and identify lessons which might inform the GTMP and similar initiatives.
Mapping, surveillance and prevalence
11 Oct 2016
Trachoma mapping in Gombe state, Nigeria: results of 11 local government area surveys
This study examined the need for the establishment of a trachoma elimination program in Gombe State, Nigeria, by estimating the population-based prevalence of trachoma in each Local Government Area (LGA) of Gombe.
Mapping, surveillance and prevalence
21 Sep 2016
The World Health Organization Recommendations for Trachoma Surveillance, Experience in Nepal and Added Benefit of Testing for Antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis pgp3 Protein: NESTS Study.
Research suggesting that antibodies deserve further investigation as a marker of interruption of chlamydia trachomatis transmission.
Mapping, surveillance and prevalence
21 Sep 2016
World Health Organization recommendations for trachoma surveillance, experience in Nepal
A study to determine the prevalence of infection and antibody positivity in two districts in Nepal. 
Mapping, surveillance and prevalence

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