10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRACHOMA»
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trachoma in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
trachoma and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Polish literature.
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Trachoma: Global Status
Trachoma: Global Status is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which explore all individual infectious diseases, drugs, vaccines, outbreaks, surveys and pathogens in every country of the world.
GIDEON Informatics, Inc., Dr. Stephen Berger, 2017
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Trachoma: A Blinding Scourge from the Bronze Age to the Twenty-First ...
Trachoma, which has been targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for elimination by 2020, currently affects 84 million children in 56 countries and blinds 1.5 million adults.
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Trichiasis Surgery for Trachoma - Strona 4
OBJECTIVE: TO DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS STAGES OF TRACHOMA AND HOW TRICHIASIS DEVELOPS 3 .1 Trachoma TRACHOMA is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis . It usually starts in childhood, ...
World Health Organization, 2013
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Clinical and Laboratory Assessment of Trachoma in South Australia
Survey for incidence of Trachoma in Aborigines in north of South Australia (Musgrave Park & Coober Pedy); Principal tribal group - Pitjantjatjara; Examination - results - treatment - transmission public health aspects.
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Social and Environmental Risk Factors for Trachoma: A Mixed Methods ...
Trachoma is a major public health concern throughout Ethiopia and other parts of the developing world.
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Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health - Strona 84
Box 9.1 Trachoma in the United States At the turn of the 20th century, the threat of trachoma was very real in the United States. The disease was rampant in crowded slums in both the United States and Europe during the Industrial Revolution, ...
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Cornea and External Eye Disease: Corneal Allotransplantation, ...
Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa carry the greatest burden of trachoma. Here, it is predominantly found in two broad belts: the first runs across the Sahal from West Africa to the Horn. The second runs down the Eastern side of the continent, ...
Thomas Reinhard, Frank Larkin, 2010
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Strategies for the Prevention of Blindness in National Programmes: A ...
Training of personnel is therefore an essential part of trachoma control. The development of simplified procedures for the assessment of trachoma and its complications and for the provision of surgery for trichiasis and entropion has allowed for ...
World Health Organization, 1997
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Smolin and Thoft's The Cornea: Scientific Foundations and Clinical ...
Trachoma is one of the oldest recorded diseases of mankind, documented in the Egyptian Eber's papyrus in 1900 BC (2,3). It is still endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, Mali, and Tanzania, as well as eastern Mediterranean ...
Gilbert Smolin, Charles Stephen Foster, Dimitri T. Azar, 2005
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Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment: ...
All programs that result in the behavioral change needed to increase clean faces in children will have a profound effect on transmission of trachoma. The SAFE strategy adds another benefit beyond simply mass drug administration (MDA).
Janine M. H. Selendy, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRACHOMA»
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trachoma is used in the context of the following news items.
Livingstone mounts anti-trachoma drive
THE Ministry of Health and Sight Savers have launched a mass drug administration campaign in Livingstone to reduce the prevalence of trachoma, an eye ... «Zambia Daily Mail, Oct 15»
Fighting Trachoma in Indigenous Australia
Trachoma can be traced back to biblical times. The bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis creates an eye infection that is spread through contaminated secretions from ... «The Diplomat, Sep 15»
In pictures: Combating trachoma in Sudan
The Global Trachoma Mapping Project is the largest infectious disease survey in history with the aim of eliminating the disease by 2020. Following years of civil ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
5m Trachoma Patients Get Free Treatment in Sokoto in 4 Years
No fewer than five million patients with Trachoma disease in 13 local government areas of Sokoto state have been treated under the State Neglected Tropical ... «THISDAY Live, Jun 15»
The world's most remote eye doctors: Powerful images show …
Eye experts are travelling across some of the planet's most challenging areas, including remote deserts and dangerous war zones, to tackle trachoma. «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
Faces of women with trachoma
Trachoma is one of the world's oldest diseases which has become a modern affliction as well. Over years or decades, repeated infections make the eyelid curl ... «Aljazeera.com, Mar 15»
'Malawi to Eliminate Trachoma By 2018'
So when we say Malawi wants to eliminate trachoma blindness what we mean is that the country is planning to bring the infection down to below a public health ... «AllAfrica.com, Mar 15»
Carter Center Works to Eradicate Trachoma
The Carter Center's Trachoma Control Program is working to eradicate the eye disease called Trachoma that often causes blindness. If left untreated, the ... «Voice of America, Mar 15»
Tigray Region of Ethiopia Focuses on Reducing Trachoma in 2015
The federation of NGOs known as Light for the World is committed to stopping the transmission of the eye disease trachoma in the northern Ethiopian region of ... «Voice of America, Jan 15»
Army of Women Educates on Trachoma in Ethiopia
An army of women” in Ethiopia has been recruited to teach friends and neighbors how to prevent trachoma, an eye disease that's preventable but still very ... «Voice of America, Jan 15»
