ArticleInternational health2022
Productivity, efficiency and gender equity of community mobilisation approaches in trichiasis campaigns: analysis of programmatic data from seven sub-Saharan African countries.
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- Progress Towards Elimination of Trachoma in Kenya 2017-2020.Ophthalmic epidemiology · 2024Article
- Optimizing Trichiasis Case Finding to Attain the Elimination of Trachoma as a Public Health Problem.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- A secondary analysis to determine countries and districts eligible for documented full geographic coverage for trichiasis case finding and outreaches.International health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAchieving elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in trichiasis-endemic districts requires a systematic approach to trichiasis case finding and outreach.
methodsProgramme monitoring data from seven countries for 2017-2019 were used to explore the efficiency of different community mobilisation approaches and uptake of trichiasis surgical services.
resultsThree countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and Mozambique) using broad-based community mobilisation strategies had large numbers of people presenting at outreach but only 2.9% of them had trichiasis, while in four countries (Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) using house-to-house case finding, 37.5% of outreach attendees had trichiasis. Countries using house-to-house case finding have proportionally more women attending outreach compared with countries using broad-based mobilisation. Among trichiasis cases offered surgery 86% accepted, which was similar for men and women.
conclusionsIn these settings, house-to-house case finding appears to be a more effective and efficient approach to ensure that trichiasis cases, particularly in women, obtain access to surgical services.
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