Community Hand-Dug Wells for Trachoma: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT: The WHO recommends improving access to water as part of a comprehensive strategy for elimination of trachoma as a public health problem; however, this recommendation is not based on evidence from randomized trials. In a region of Ethiopia with hyperendemic trachoma, seven communities were randomized to a hand-dug well (HDW) and seven communities to no intervention to determine the impact of HDWs on the community prevalence of ocular chlamydia infection (primary prespecified outcome). All communities continued to receive government hygiene and sanitation services and outreach. Participants were not masked, given the nature of the intervention, but laboratory personnel were masked to treatment allocation. Hand-dug wells were successfully built in six of the seven communities; five of these w

SUBMITTER: Aragie S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8045603 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature