TY - JOUR
AU - Solomon A
AU - Pavluck A
AU - Courtright P
AU - Aboe A
AU - Adamu L
AU - Alemayehu W
AU - Alemu M
AU - Alexander N
AU - Kello AB
AU - Bero B
AU - Brooker S
AU - Chu BK
AU - Dejene M
AU - Emerson P
AU - Flueckiger R
AU - Gadisa S
AU - Gass KM
AU - Gebre T
AU - Habtamu Z
AU - Harvey E
AU - Haslam D
AU - King J
AU - Mesurier RL
AU - Lewallen S
AU - Lietman TM
AU - Macarthur C
AU - Mariotti SP
AU - Massey A
AU - Mathieu E
AU - Mekasha A
AU - Millar T
AU - Mpyet C
AU - Munoz B
AU - Ngondi J
AU - Ogden S
AU - Pearce J
AU - Sarah V
AU - Sisay A
AU - Smith JL
AU - Taylor H
AU - Thomson J
AU - West S
AU - Willis R
AU - Bush S
AU - Haddad D
AU - Foster A
AB - <p><strong>PURPOSE: </strong>To complete the baseline trachoma map worldwide by conducting population-based surveys in an estimated 1238 suspected endemic districts of 34 countries.</p>

<p><strong>METHODS: </strong>A series of national and sub-national projects owned, managed and staffed by ministries of health, conduct house-to-house cluster random sample surveys in evaluation units, which generally correspond to "health district" size: populations of 100,000-250,000 people. In each evaluation unit, we invite all residents aged 1 year and older from h households in each of c clusters to be examined for clinical signs of trachoma, where h is the number of households that can be seen by 1 team in 1 day, and the product h × c is calculated to facilitate recruitment of 1019 children aged 1-9 years. In addition to individual-level demographic and clinical data, household-level water, sanitation and hygiene data are entered into the purpose-built LINKS application on Android smartphones, transmitted to the Cloud, and cleaned, analyzed and ministry-of-health-approved via a secure web-based portal. The main outcome measures are the evaluation unit-level prevalence of follicular trachoma in children aged 1-9 years, prevalence of trachomatous trichiasis in adults aged 15 + years, percentage of households using safe methods for disposal of human feces, and percentage of households with proximate access to water for personal hygiene purposes.</p>

<p><strong>RESULTS: </strong>In the first year of fieldwork, 347 field teams commenced work in 21 projects in 7 countries.</p>

<p><strong>CONCLUSION: </strong>With an approach that is innovative in design and scale, we aim to complete baseline mapping of trachoma throughout the world in 2015.</p>

BT - Ophthalmic epidemiology
C1 - <p>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26158580?dopt=Abstract</p>

DO - 10.3109/09286586.2015.1037401
IS - 3
J2 - Ophthalmic Epidemiol
LA - eng
N2 - <p><strong>PURPOSE: </strong>To complete the baseline trachoma map worldwide by conducting population-based surveys in an estimated 1238 suspected endemic districts of 34 countries.</p>

<p><strong>METHODS: </strong>A series of national and sub-national projects owned, managed and staffed by ministries of health, conduct house-to-house cluster random sample surveys in evaluation units, which generally correspond to "health district" size: populations of 100,000-250,000 people. In each evaluation unit, we invite all residents aged 1 year and older from h households in each of c clusters to be examined for clinical signs of trachoma, where h is the number of households that can be seen by 1 team in 1 day, and the product h × c is calculated to facilitate recruitment of 1019 children aged 1-9 years. In addition to individual-level demographic and clinical data, household-level water, sanitation and hygiene data are entered into the purpose-built LINKS application on Android smartphones, transmitted to the Cloud, and cleaned, analyzed and ministry-of-health-approved via a secure web-based portal. The main outcome measures are the evaluation unit-level prevalence of follicular trachoma in children aged 1-9 years, prevalence of trachomatous trichiasis in adults aged 15 + years, percentage of households using safe methods for disposal of human feces, and percentage of households with proximate access to water for personal hygiene purposes.</p>

<p><strong>RESULTS: </strong>In the first year of fieldwork, 347 field teams commenced work in 21 projects in 7 countries.</p>

<p><strong>CONCLUSION: </strong>With an approach that is innovative in design and scale, we aim to complete baseline mapping of trachoma throughout the world in 2015.</p>

PY - 2015
SP - 214
EP - 25
T2 - Ophthalmic epidemiology
TI - The global trachoma mapping project: Methodology of a 34-country population-based study.
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/09286586.2015.1037401
VL - 22
SN - 1744-5086
ER -