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How communities can control trachoma without a big budget

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Trachoma is an eye infection that affects an estimated 325 million people in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and is the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness. Infection occurs most readily in children, causing itching, redness, and irritation in the eyes and eyelids, and infected ocular discharge. Repeated infections in childhood lead to the formation of scar tissue which culminates in the inversion of the eyelids and eyelashes in adulthood, and ultimately, blindness.

Source: Community Eye Health Journal

DOI: 10.56920/cehj.616

Authors: Stephanie Ogden, Paul Emerson

Institutions: International Trachoma Initiative, International Trachoma Initiative, Carter Center

Language: English

Topic: Ocular Infections and Treatments

Subfield: Ophthalmology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W159469602