Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Ghana: Providing evidence through a pre-validation survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In order to achieve elimination of trachoma, a country needs to demonstrate that the elimination prevalence thresholds have been achieved and then sustained for at least a two-year period. Ghana achieved the thresholds in 2008, and since 2011 has been implementing its trachoma surveillance strategy, which includes community and school screening for signs of follicular trachoma and trichiasis, in trachoma-endemic districts. In 2015-2016, the country conducted a district level population-based survey to validate elimination of trachoma as a public health problem.

Methods

As per WHO recommendations, a cross-sectional survey, employing a two-stage cluster random sampling methodology, was used across 18 previously trachoma endemic districts (evaluation units (EUs) in t

SUBMITTER: Debrah O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5746280 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature