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The trachoma problem among the North American Indians by L. Webster Fox, 1926 TRACHOMA; PREVENTIOIN AND TREATMENT An investigation of the prevalence of trachoma in the state of Minnesota, (Public health reports) by Taliaferro Clark, 1913 Field methods for the control of trachoma Trachoma Teaching Text/slides Set The trachoma problem in the state of Minnesota, (Public health reports) by Taliaferro Clark, 1923 The Biology of the Trachoma Agent 1962 Annals of the New York academy of Sciences Volume 98, Art. 1 Trachoma and other eye diseases in Western New Guinea, (Van Gorcum's medische bibliotheek) by H. C. P. M Schubert, 1964 Field Methods for the Control of Trachoma by World Health Organisation, 1974-03 Report of trachoma clinic conducted at Pelham, Mitchell County, Ga., November 14, 1921-April 1, 1922, by John McMullen, 1922 Trachoma and allied infections in a Gambian village (Special report series;no.308) by Medical Research Council, 1965 Trachoma among the Indians: What Uncle Sam should do about it (Bulletin / Eastern Association on Indian Affairs, Inc) by Lewis H Carris, 1925 Biological control of bush flies: Vectors of trachoma and enteric disease : final report by Ian R Dadour, 1998 FRED HOLLOWS - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by FRED with CORRIS, PETER HOLLOWS, 1991

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101. Center For Global Development : Initiatives: Active: Millions Saved
     CASE 9 Controlling trachoma in Morocco. Map showing Morocco. How do we know. An evaluation of the trachoma program was conducted by the London School of  
     http://www.cgdev.org/Publications/millionssaved/studies/case_9.cfm
     
     Extractions: @import '/style.css'; Contact Us Support CGD Site Map Search Sign up to receive updates from CGD: Print this Page Email this Page ... Initiatives One of the greatest human accomplishments has been the spectacular improvement in health since 1950. In developing countries, life expectancy has risen from 40 to 65 years, and the chances that a child will survive to the age of five has doubled. In addition to directly improving people's lives, this progress contributes to economic growth. While some of the improvements in health is the result of overall social and economic gains, about half of it is due to specific efforts to address major causes of disease and disability such as providing better and more accessible health services, introducing new medicines and other health technologies, and fostering healthier behaviors. Millions Saved: Proven Success in Global Health is about part of that success story: 17 cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries have succeeded - saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods and social fabric of entire communities.

102. Welcome To IConnect Online - Trachoma School Health And Information Technology
     trachoma is best described as a community disease, which can often be controlled In February 2000, the first international workshop on trachoma School  
     http://www.iconnect-online.org/Stories/Story.import4282
     
     Extractions: @import url(http://www.iconnect-online.org/ploneColumns.css); @import url(http://www.iconnect-online.org/plone.css); @import url(http://www.iconnect-online.org/ploneCustom.css); Skip to content Search Advanced Sections You are here: Home ICT Stories Trachoma School Health and Information Technology Document Actions Document Actions Date added : 2000-07-25 Helen Keller International has begun a five-year project to expand community education and school health interventions in eight countries to help reduce trachoma, which is the second leading cause of blindness in the world. The project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Helen Keller International has begun a five-year project to expand community education and school health interventions in eight countries to help reduce trachoma, which is the second leading cause of blindness in the world. The project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.. Trachoma is best described as a community disease, which can often be controlled with simple methods implemented within the community. Most of the active disease is concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. 6 million people are blind or at high risk of blindness from trachoma, and roughly 4 million of them are women. Another 150 million, mostly children, need treatment for active disease. 540 million people, or 10% of the world’s population, are at risk of developing the disease. The World Health Organization has endorsed a four-part strategy to eliminate trachoma as a blinding disease:

103. Medicine And Health Rhode Island: GLOBAL BURDEN OF TRACHOMA, THE
     Full text of the article, GLOBAL BURDEN OF trachoma, THE from Medicine and Health Rhode Island, a publication in the field of Health Fitness,  
     http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4100/is_200404/ai_n9377349
     
     Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Europeans called it Egyptian ophthalmia because Napoleon's invading armies had first encountered this communicable dis ease in the Nile Valley. Large numbers of British troops, stationed in the Middle East during the early 191'1 Century, also contracted this infection; and many were then rendered unfit for military duty because of the blindness which it caused. This was not, of course, a newly confronted ailment. It had been well known in antiquity and was fully described in ancient Egyptian papyri. Historically it represented a recurrent medical hazard with each military incursion in the Middle East. The Macedonian troops of Alexander, the Roman legions of Vespasian and the Crusader armies all became afflicted with this painful eye disease.

104. Healthopedia.com - Trachoma
     trachoma is a highly contagious infection of the eyes. trachoma is caused by an organism called Chlamydia trachomatis.  
     http://www.healthopedia.com/trachoma/
     
     Extractions: Category : Health Centers Eyes and Vision Trachoma Pictures and Images Attribution Trachoma is a highly contagious infection of the eyes. Trachoma is caused by an organism called Chlamydia trachomatis. What is going on in the body? Trachoma is a form of an eye infection called conjunctivitis . The chlamydia organism infects the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye. It can cause a number of symptoms and serious complications. Chlamydia was once thought to be a virus but is now believed to be more bacterial. It appears to respond to antibiotics. The infection is chronic and long lasting. Trachoma usually infects only the eyes. But it can also settle in the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body. What are the causes and risks of the disease?

105. Arch Ophthalmol -- Abstract: Facial Cleanliness And Risk Of Trachoma In Families
     In large families, the odds of trachoma increased 4.8fold if a sibling had Risk Factors for trachoma 6-Year Follow-up of Children Aged 1 and 2 Years  
     http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/109/6/855
     
     Extractions: Vol. 109 No. 6, June 1991 Featured Link E-mail Alerts ARTICLE Article Options Send to a Friend Readers Reply Submit a reply Similar articles in this journal Literature Track Add to File Drawer Download to Citation Manager PubMed citation Articles in PubMed by West SK Mele L Articles that cite this article Contact me when this article is cited S. K. West, N. Congdon, S. Katala and L. Mele Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md 21205. Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide, and epidemiologic studies of factors that may increase the transmission of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis are needed. In two villages in a hyperendemic area of Central Tanzania, 472 (90%) of 527 preschool-aged children were

106. Elimination Of Trachoma One Step Nearer As Major Breakthrough Announced
     breakthrough in treatment and control of trachoma.  
     http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/news/2004/trachoma.html
     
     Extractions: Contact People Sitemap A-Z ... Departments You are here: Home News Researchers find a way of stopping trachoma for up to two years with just one round of antibiotics Their findings, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, reveal that mass treatment of trachoma-endemic communities with just one round of the antibiotic azithromycin, aided by periodic treatment with tetracycline eye ointment of individuals with the active disease, can stop the transmission of trachoma for up to two years and reduce the prevalence of infection to virtually nil. The team treated residents of a trachoma endemic community with azithromycin (97% of the 978 residents were treated), and took conjunctival swabs from everyone in the village intermittently for a period of two years after treatment. All individuals who had clinically active trachoma were also given tetracycline eye ointment at 6, 12 and 18 month intervals. The researchers found that infection rates in the village fell dramatically from 9.5 % (pre-treatment) to 2.1% at two months and just 0.1% at 24 months. Two-thirds of blindness is treatable, yet an estimated 45 million people worldwide are blind and, every year, an additional 1-2 million people join them. A child goes blind every minute. These findings will have a significant impact on the treatment of one of the major blinding diseases, helping trachoma control programmes to refine antibiotic distribution strategies.

107. Disease - Trachoma - Detroit, Michigan
     Disease trachoma - courtesy of Henry Ford Health System of Detroit, Michigan.  
     http://www.henryfordhealth.org/12539.cfm
     
     Extractions: 3D Tour of the Vattikuti Institute About the Institute The Vattikuti Institute Prostatectomy Prostate Cancer ... Health Encyclopedia Back to main Health Information page Eye Definition: Trachoma is an eye infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, which may result in chronic scarring and blindness if left untreated. Alternative Names: Granular conjunctivitis; Egyptian ophthalmia Causes And Risk: Trachoma is caused by infection with the bacteria Chlamydiatrachomatis. It has an incubation period of 5 to 12 days and begins slowly as conjunctivitis (irritation near the eye, "pink eye"), which if untreated may become chronic and lead to scarring. If the eyelids are severely irritated, the eyelashes may turn in and rub against the cornea. This can cause eye ulcers, further scarring, visual loss, and even blindness Trachoma occurs worldwide primarily in rural settings in developing countries. It frequently affects children, although the consequences of scarring may not be evident until later in life. While trachoma is rare in the United States, certain populations marked by poverty, crowded living conditions, and/or poor hygiene are at higher risk for this illness. Trachoma is acquired via direct contact with eye or nose-throat secretions from affected individuals or by contact with inanimate objects which are contaminated with these secretions, such as towels or clothes. In addition, certain flies which have fed on these secretions can transmit trachoma.

108. Entrez PubMed
     BACKGROUND trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness. Programmes to prevent blindness due to trachoma are based on communitywide treatment  
     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1

109. Environmental Sanitary Interventions For Preventing Active Trachoma (Cochrane Re
     Abstract of a systematic review of the effects of health care prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration.  
     http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/AB004003.htm
     
     Extractions: From The Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2005 Environmental sanitary interventions for preventing active trachoma (Cochrane Review) Rabiu M, Alhassan M, Ejere H ABSTRACT What's new in this issue Search abstracts Browse alphabetical list of titles Browse by Review Group A substantive amendment to this systematic review was last made on 01 February 2005. Cochrane reviews are regularly checked and updated if necessary. Background: Trachoma is the second or third major cause of blindness. It is responsible for about six million blind people worldwide, mostly in the poor communities of developing countries. One of the major strategies advocated for the control of the disease is the application of various environmental sanitary measures to such communities. Objectives: To assess the evidence for the effectiveness of environmental sanitary measures on the prevalence of active trachoma in endemic areas. Search strategy: We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials - CENTRAL (which contains the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group Trials Register) on The Cochrane Library (Issue 4, 2004), MEDLINE (1966 to January 2005), EMBASE (1980 to January 2005), LILACS (April 2004), the reference list of trials and the Science Citation Index. We also contacted agencies, experts and researchers in trachoma control. Selection criteria: This review included randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials comparing any form of environmental hygiene measures with no measure. These hygienic measures included fly control, provision of water and health education. Participants in the trials were people normally resident in the trachoma endemic areas.

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