Sentences with phrase «of trachoma»

A policy analyst should be asking, what is the evidence for face washing in the prevention and disease control of trachoma?

Repeated cases of trachoma infection may cause scarring of the inner eyelid, which may cause entropion.

Earlier phases of the study have shown it to be effective in treating individual cases of trachoma, and the trial is now looking into what treatment strategies will be required to stop the infection spreading and thereby eradicate the disease within the country.

Not exact matches

Tropical diseases like guinea worm, trachoma, and schistosomiasis, which infect millions of people annually, are found most often in places with unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation and hygiene.

She runs the Gambian arm of a trial which seeks not just to treat trachoma a bacterial infection that can cause blindness, but to eradicate it from the countries where the study is being run.

Part of the control strategy for trachoma — repeated eye infections caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis — is facial cleanliness.

The findings suggest that measures of facial cleanliness can be added to trachoma surveys in the developing countries where the infection is a public health problem.

The Tool can visualize the geographical distribution of all of the main preventative chemotherapy (PCT) NTDs: schistosomiasis, soil - transmitted helminths, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and blinding trachoma.

Stronger - SAFE is a # 3.9 m Wellcome Trust funded project that will increase our understanding of how trachoma is transmitted, and hopefully lead to the development and testing of new, more effective interventions and treatment approaches.

An eye infection called trachoma is still common in North Africa and South Asia and this can cause scarring of the inner eyelid, which may cause friction and entropion.

While a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, he worked alongside local counterparts in campaigns against the guinea worm and trachoma diseases, and managed the construction of a rural health clinic.

Rates of diseases associated with poor environmental health (including water and food borne diseases, trachoma, tuberculosis and rheumatic heart disease)

For example, life expectation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in 1999 - 2000 was estimated to be the same as the total male population in 1901 - 1910, while for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females it is similar to the total female population in 1920 - 22228; Adelaide was recorded as having an infant mortality rate of 140 deaths per 1,000 live births at the end of the nineteenth century229, similar to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the 1960s and 1970s; trachoma was common in the capital cities of the late nineteenth century, as it is in some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities today.230

It was reported in 2001 that in areas with severe trachoma in Australia, one in five of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have in - turned lashes, and about half of these are either blind already or will eventually go blind.

The responsibility for trachoma control, rheumatic fever and a range of other communicable diseases is a core obligation.

Unfortunately, the answer is no (there is an abundance of literature on this matter which shows that face washing alone does not affect trachoma rates - the SAFE approach is necessary).