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Operational adaptations of the trachoma pre-validation surveillance strategy employed in Ghana: successes and challenges

In 2009 Ghana began to design a trachoma pre-validation surveillance plan, based on then-current WHO recommendations. The plan aimed to identify active trachoma resurgence and identify and manage trichiasis cases, through both active and passive surveillance approaches. This paper outlines and reviews the adaptations made by Ghana between 2011 and 2016. The assessment will provide a learning opportunity for a number of countries as they progress towards elimination status.

A female researcher uses a mobile phone to survey a community for trachoma in Sierra Leone.
Type
Journal title
Theme
NTD
Date published
11/09/2019
Journal
Journal of Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Language
English
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