Models predict that the negative effects of delayed implementation in trachoma elimination programmes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be minimal, except in high prevalence districts where progress may be reversed. During times of change we must stand by our principles of evidence-based decision-making, but also be willing to show flexibility. Slow progress to elimination in high prevalence districts was already a significant challenge to the global programme and mitigation of COVID-related delays with enhanced implementation provides an opportunity to simultaneously address an unprecedented challenge and a pre-existing one.
BT - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene C1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33421962 DA - 01/2021 DO - 10.1093/trstmh/traa175 J2 - Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg LA - eng N2 -Models predict that the negative effects of delayed implementation in trachoma elimination programmes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be minimal, except in high prevalence districts where progress may be reversed. During times of change we must stand by our principles of evidence-based decision-making, but also be willing to show flexibility. Slow progress to elimination in high prevalence districts was already a significant challenge to the global programme and mitigation of COVID-related delays with enhanced implementation provides an opportunity to simultaneously address an unprecedented challenge and a pre-existing one.
PY - 2021 T2 - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene TI - Use of modelling to modify trachoma elimination strategies affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. UR - https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/trstmh/traa175/35589681/traa175.pdf SN - 1878-3503 ER -