Eliminating trachoma
Discover how communities and experts are joining together to end trachoma disease across 42 endemic countries by the year 2020. This course is aimed at the personnel implementing and managing trachoma programmes at a district and community level. It provides insights from stakeholders, experts and professionals as they share their experiences of their successes and challenges of eliminating blinding trachoma.
Week 1: The challenge of trachoma
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Welcome to the course
A welcome to the course from the teaching team and an initial opportunity to introduce yourself. Activities look at how we define and diagnose trachoma eye disease.
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Where is trachoma?
Learn the magnitude, distribution, and causes of trachoma eye disease.
What can we do?
How we collect trachoma mapping data at the local level and use it to guide elimination activities.
Week 2 : Action for trachoma: S is for surgery
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Reaching trichiasis patients
What is trichiasis? How can we reach trichiasis patients? And how do we assess and counsel patients once we find them? Image © Lance Bellers / LSHTM CC BY-NC
Trichiasis surgery in the community
Explore how to plan, organise and deliver high quality trichiasis surgery in the community as part of a trachoma elimination programme. Image © Carter Center CC BY-NC-SA
Managing the coverage and quality of trichiasis surgery
Week 3 : Action for trachoma: A is for Antibiotics
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Taking antibiotics to the community
Discover the partnerships between health services that are essential to support each person with diabetes and coordinate their long-term diabetes eye care needs.
Creating a team approach to screening and grading
How do we know when to start and stop mass drug administration (MDA)? Which MDA strategy should we use in a community? And what is microplanning for MDA?
Week 4 : Action for trachoma: Face washing and the Environment
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Trachoma, community and environment
Engaging with partners and communities is vital to achieve environmental improvement and behavior and reduce trachoma transmission. Image: water.org CC BY-NC-SA
Working with stakeholders
Multi-disciplinary action is required to implement water and sanitation improvements in a sustainable way. Image: WaterMission Uganda CC BY-NC-SA
Week 5: Is SAFE making a difference?
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What is monitoring?
How trachoma programme managers can check that a plan is progressing and if it has made a difference.
Monitoring for trachoma elimination
Consider the critical elements of the monitoring and evaluation system for trachoma.
Certifying elimination
How national programmes manage and document progress towards verification that trachoma has been eliminated in their country.
Course review
Details of further learning opportunities and course acknowledgements. Image: LSHTM.
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