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Trachoma Update- September 2002
trachoma Control Program. Pictorial Report Upper Nile, South Sudan September2002. trachoma usually begins in early childhood
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Extractions: September 2002 Trachoma: "... usually begins in early childhood; but does not cause blindness until much later in life, as repeated infections cause inflammation and scarring on the inside of the eyelid Trachoma, caused by chlamydia trachomatis, is spread easily from person to person. Through the discharge from the eyes of an infected child, trachoma is passed to others by hands, on clothing, or by flies that are attracted to faces and runny noses. Repeated infections eventually cause eyelashes to turn inwards (Trichiasis) and rub against the cornea, which causes pain and the scarring that eventually leads to corneal opacity (blindness). The tragic later stages of the disease occur in adulthood; when people are in their most productive years. (The Carter Center, June 2002). Understanding conditions in Upper Nile is essential for a full appreciation of the health challenges, and helps explain why trachoma has persisted, and remains such a serious challenge. Upper Nile is a vast plain, with savanna grassland and forest, drained by large rivers and interspersed with seasonal swamps and marshes. Before the current civil war (1983
1Up Health > Trachoma > Causes, Incidence, And Risk Factors Of Trachoma (Egyptia
Comprehesive information on trachoma (Egyptian ophthalmia, Granular conjunctivitis). trachomaCauses, Incidence, and Risk Factors. Alternative names
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Extractions: 1Up Health Trachoma Alternative Medicine Clinical Trials ... Health Topics A-Z Search 1Up Health Trachoma Information Trachoma Causes, Incidence, and Risk Factors Alternative names : Egyptian ophthalmia, Granular conjunctivitis Definition : Trachoma is an eye infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis which may result in chronic scarring and blindness if left untreated. Trachoma is caused by infection with the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis . 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.
Eye Conditions > Trachoma -- EyeMDLink.com
Last Updated 9/30/2001. trachoma. Also referred to as Trachomiatopolisologytrachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide.
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Trachoma | Vhihealthe
. trachoma is a major cause of blindness in the world.It is found in the Far East, as well as countries with desert climates.trachoma.
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Extractions: Trachoma, which is also called granular conjunctivitis or Egyptian ophthalmia, is a contagious, chronic inflammation of the mucous membranes of the eyes, caused by Chlamydia trachomatis . It is characterized by swelling of the eyelids, sensitivity to light, and eventual scarring of the conjunctivae and corneas of the eyes. Description Trachoma is a major cause of blindness in the world. It is found in the Far East, as well as countries with desert climates. In the United States, it is most common among certain Native Americans and in parts of Appalachia. The infection is highly contagious in its early stages. Blindness results from recurrent untreated infections. The conjunctiva is the clear mucous membrane that lines the inside of the eyelid and covers the white part (sclera) of the eye. Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva. Causes and symptoms
Disease Fact Sheet: Trachoma
Overview of disease fact sheets. Disease fact sheet trachoma. Global Alliancefor the Elimination of trachoma by the year 2020 (GET 2020).
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Extractions: Overview of disease fact sheets The disease and its effect on people Cause Distribution Scale of the Problem ... Global Alliance for the Elimination of Trachoma by the year 2020 (GET 2020) Trachoma is caused by an organism called Chlamydia trachomatis. Through the discharge from an infected child's eyes, trachoma is passed on by hands, on clothing, or by flies that land on the face of the infected child. Trachoma occurs worldwide and most often in poor rural communities in developing countries. Blinding trachoma is widespread in the Middle East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa, parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southern Asia and China. Pockets of blinding trachoma occur in Latin America, Australia (among native Australians) and the Pacific Islands. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that six million worldwide are blind due to trachoma and more than 150 million people are in need of treatment. Primary interventions advocated for preventing trachoma infection include improved sanitation, reduction of fly breeding sites and increased facial cleanliness (with clean water) among children at risk of disease. The scaring and visual change for trachoma can be reversed by a simple surgical procedure performed at village level which reverses the inturned eyelashes.
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trachoma. The word trachoma is derived from the Greek word rough .It is an the eyes. trachoma is a major cause of blindness. It
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CCHS Clinical Digital Library
trachoma Patient/Family Resources. Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous trachoma Patient/FamilyResources National Library of Medicine MEDLINEplus Health Topics Index
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CCHS Clinical Digital Library
trachoma Clinical Resources. Miscellaneous trachoma Clinical ResourcesHealth Reviews for Primary Care Providers on the Internet Homepage
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Extractions: Clinical Resources by Topic: Ophthalmology Trachoma Clinical Resources Emergency Pediatrics Pathology Clinical Guidelines ... Miscellaneous Resources See also: Chapter 179: Chlamydial Infections Table of contents Yanoff: Ophthalmology 1st Ed.-1999 (MD Consult): Table of contents Health Sciences Library subscription INFO Mandell: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases 5th Ed.-2000 (MD Consult): Table of contents Health Sciences Library subscription INFO Chapter 167 - Introduction to Chlamydial Diseases: Access document Chapter 168 - Chlamydia trachomatis (Trachoma
Caring For Community: International Trachoma Initiative
International trachoma Initiative. Home Caring for Community Internationaltrachoma Initiative. trachoma. It was the reason that
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Extractions: However, Trachoma remains a devastating scourge in many developing countries. Today, almost six million people worldwide have already gone blind from this easily transmittable disease, and an estimated 150 million are in need of treatment to avoid suffering the same fate. Women are blinded two to three times more often than men, probably due to their close contact with young children, who are very susceptible to the disease. Although trachoma is preventable and treatable, the resources to fight the disease have not always been available. However, there is now real cause for hope that blinding trachoma can be controlled and some day eliminated as a public health threat, thanks to the unique partnership between Pfizer and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. The International Trachoma Initiative uses an innovative plan developed by the World Health Organization called the SAFE strategy . SAFE combines curative medicine, community-based public health approaches and educational tools into a simple, easy-to-follow procedure. A critical component of the strategy's success is the use and availability of Pfizer's antibiotic, Zithromax. For the first time, patients can take a single-dose oral treatment for trachoma
Access To Medicines: International Trachoma Initiative
International trachoma Initiative. Home Access to Medicines InternationalPrograms International trachoma Initiative. trachoma.
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Extractions: Trachoma. Almost six million people worldwide have already gone blind from this easily transmittable disease, and an estimated 150 million are in need of treatment to avoid suffering the same fate. Women are blinded two to three times more often than men, probably due to their close contact with young children, who are very susceptible to the disease. Although trachoma is preventable and treatable, the resources to fight the disease have not always been available. However, there is now real cause for hope that blinding trachoma can be controlled and some day eliminated, thanks to the unique partnership between Pfizer and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. The International Trachoma Initiative uses an innovative plan developed by the World Health Organization called the SAFE strategy . SAFE combines curative medicine, community-based public health approaches and educational tools into a simple, easy-to-follow procedure. A critical component of the strategy's success is the use and availability of Zithromax. For the first time, patients can take a single-dose oral treatment for trachoma a radical advance from the previous regime of daily applications of antibiotic eye ointment over a full six-week period. Bacteria cause trachoma, but poverty and lack of access to health care, clean water, and sanitation help to accelerate its rapid spread. This can lead to the devastation of entire communities as well as families. For example, if a woman goes blind due to trachoma, her daughters may be pulled out of school to help care for older relatives, younger siblings, farm animals, and crops. Not only does this greatly limit the family's future opportunities, but it also helps perpetuate a cycle of poverty that can continue for generations.
Medic-Planet Trachoma
trachoma See also Eyes and vision, Pink eye, Back to the Index page Causetrachoma is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
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Christian Blind Mission International : Trachoma
trachoma. What is trachoma? How big is the problem? What is CBMI doing tohelp? What is trachoma? trachoma is an infectious disease of the eye.
http://www.cbmi.org.au/tellmemore/trachoma.asp

Extractions: What is Trachoma? Trachoma is an infectious disease of the eye. It is one of the leading causes of blindness, especially in dry, poverty-stricken areas of the world where water is scarce and washing is difficult. A general lack of hygiene, smoke from cooking fires and blowing dust provide a perfect environment for the Chlamydia trachomatis microorganism to take hold, infecting and re-infecting eyes throughout a community. The condition is worsened by overcrowding, where children sleep packed together and flies swarm around exposed refuse. After years of repeated infection, as children pass the trachoma organism back and forth and flies carry it from face to face, scarring gradually builds up on the underside of the eyelid. The infection becomes more painful and damaging in adulthood as the inturned eyelid brings the eyelashes into contact with the cornea. The eyelashes break off into bristles that scratch the cornea (a condition known as trichiasis), causing scarring and ultimately irreversible blindness.
Dana Center Trachoma Study
Dana Center trachoma Study. trachoma continues to be a leading causeof blindness in the world. Once found world wide, trachoma has
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Extractions: Dana Center Trachoma Study Overview of Project Introduction Trachoma continues to be a leading cause of blindness in the world. Once found world wide, trachoma has largely disappeared from North America and Europe in connection with socioeconomic changes and development. However, large areas of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia still suffer from this preventable disease. Approximately 5-10% of the world's population has been infected. While adequate doses of topical antibiotic treatment have been shown to be effective against ocular C. Trachomiatis, the community based topical treatment programs are ineffective in controlling trachoma, as their effects are relatively short lived. Within a year, the levels of disease activity approximate those found before the intervention. The benefits of the treatment programs in preventing blinding lesions are thought to be due to reduction of the duration of severe inflammation. Studies have documented the rapid re-emergence of active trachoma in communities that have implemented mass treatment with topical antibiotics. In one study in Tanzania, 7% of children who were direct fluorescent antibody (DFA) negative for chlamydia immediately following topical tetracycline were DFA positive 4 weeks later. With the more sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, fully 20% of those who were PCR negative following treatment became PCR-positive. By the end of 10 months following treatment, the cumulative risk of severe disease in children free of severe trachoma following treatment was twenty percent.
Anti-trachoma Goggles
antitrachoma goggles cheap plastic-film goggles to keep flies offeyes, (-2, +1), During the war we were issued with very cheaply
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Extractions: See page 22, New Scientist 22 Jul 2000 - for a similar idea - the Fergusson Fly Trap - made from two plastic fizz bottles. Invented in New Zealand in 1997 it is now used everywhere, having e.g. reduced trachoma cases 36% in Kenya. The same bottles could make goggles too. - rayfo, Jul 29 2000 rayfo , Jul 28 2000
DBMD - Trachoma - Technical Information
trachoma. Clinical Features, trachoma is a chronic follicular conjunctivitisthat leads to scarring in the conjunctiva and cornea.
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Extractions: Trachoma Clinical Features Trachoma is a chronic follicular conjunctivitis that leads to scarring in the conjunctiva and cornea. Repeat active infections occur in children Chlamydia trachomatis , serovars A, B, and C. First description of disease in 16th-century BC in the Ebers Papyrus. Infectious potential demonstrated by experimental transmission of agent from a case-patient to an orangutan in 1907. Incidence WHO estimates that approximately 6 million cases of blindness due to trachoma and 11 million cases of trichiasis occur yearly. Prevalence of active disease in children varies from 10-40% in some African countries to 3-10% in several Asian countries. The overall incidence is unknown.
Prevention Of Blindness: Trachoma Control
Prevention of Blindness trachoma Control. Approximately 69 million* people areblind from trachoma, and many more have suffered partial loss of vision.
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Extractions: Trachoma is estimated to affect approximately 500 million people, primarily in rural communities of the developing world and in the arid areas of tropical and subtropical zones. Approximately 6-9 million* people are blind from trachoma, and many more have suffered partial loss of vision. Trachoma can be controlled, and blindness and visual loss can be prevented by appropriate application of relatively simple and inexpensive measures. Therefore, communities with uncontrolled trachoma should be identified so that appropriate control measures can be implemented. Such communities are likely to be found in countries where blindness rates are above the range of 0.5%-1%, and where more than 1%-2% of the population are blind from all causes. In recent years, preventable and easily curable blindness has been recognized as a combatible public health problem. The need for blindness prevention has led to a renewed interest in trachoma and associated infections, which are still the most important causes of preventable blindness in the world. In 1975, the Twenty-Eighth World Health Assembly, in a resolution on the prevention of blindness, requested the Director General of the World Health Organization "to encourage member countries to develop national programmes for the prevention of blindness, especially aimed at the control of trachoma, xerophthalmia, onchocerciasis, and other causes, and to introduce adequate measures for the early detection and treatment for other potentially blinding conditions such as cataract and glaucoma."
Trachoma - Introduction.
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trachoma. CBM Home Page. UK Office. Scottish NEWS. SCHOOLS. An estimated 146 millionpeople have the active trachoma infection and need preventative treatment.
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Extractions: Trachoma CBM Home Page UK Office Scottish NEWS Co-Workers ... SIGHT FLIGHT I want to... help people with Cataracts help people with River Blindness help the Sight Flight Program help people with Trachoma help Vitamin A Deficiency receive a CBM Publication CBM Christian Blind Mission International An estimated 146 million people have the active trachoma infection and need preventative treatment. A further 10.6 million people suffer the condition known as trichiasis . It is the final and most painful stage of trachoma, the last stage before complete and irreversible blindness. These people desperately need surgery (a 'lid rotation' operation) if they are to avoid blindness. Six million people are irrevocably blind from trachoma. As a move towards the year 2020, and part of the VISION 2020 initiative, CBM will intensify its
Trachoma
trachoma, trukO'mu Pronunciation Key. trachoma , infection of the mucousmembrane of the eyelids caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
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Extractions: Pronunciation Key trachoma , infection of the mucous membrane of the eyelids caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Trachoma infects more than 150 million people worldwide. An estimated 6 million people have become blind because of it, making the disease the second leading cause of blindness, after cataracts. It is most common in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. In the United States it has occurred sporadically among Native Americans and in mountainous areas of the South. Trachoma is highly contagious in its early stages and is transmitted by direct contact with infected persons or articles (e.g., towels, handkerchiefs) and possibly also by flies. It begins as congestion and swelling of the eyelids with tearing and disturbance of vision. The cornea is often involved. If left untreated, scar tissue forms, which causes deformities of the eyelids and, if there is corneal involvement, partial or total blindness. The disease has been effectively treated with tetracycline ointment and with the newer oral drug azithromycin (Zithromax). The World Health Organization began a campaign in 1998 to eradicate the disease worldwide by the year 2020. The strategy includes use of azithromycin and sanitation improvements in water supplies.

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