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The SAFE strategy for the elimination of trachoma by 2020: will it work?

R Bailey1, T Lietman.   

Abstract

WHO has recently launched a programme (GET 2020) for the elimination of trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. GET 2020 has adopted the SAFE strategy, a comprehensive set of control measures (Surgery for entropion/trichiasis; Antibiotics for infectious trachoma; Facial cleanliness to reduce transmission; Environmental improvements such as control of disease-spreading flies and access to clean water). The present article reviews the strengths and weaknesses of each component of the strategy. Although significant hurdles remain to be overcome there is every reason to hope that GET 2020 will be successful.

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Year:  2003        PMID： 11285668      PMCID： PMC2566372     

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Bull World Health Organ        ISSN： 0042-9686            Impact factor:   9.408


  25 in total

1.  What more is there to learn about trachoma?

Authors:  M Melese; W Alemayehu; B Gaynor; E Yi; J P Whitcher; T M Lietman
Journal:  Br J Ophthalmol       Date:  2003-05       Impact factor: 4.638

Review 2.  Current trachoma treatment methodologies: focus on advancements in drug therapy.

Authors:  Loretta M Chiu; Guy W Amsden
Journal:  Drugs       Date:  2002       Impact factor: 9.546

Review 3.  Environmental sanitary interventions for preventing active trachoma.

Authors:  Mansur Rabiu; Mahmoud B Alhassan; Henry O D Ejere; Jennifer R Evans
Journal:  Cochrane Database Syst Rev       Date:  2012-02-15

4.  Trachoma control in two Central Australian Aboriginal communities: a case study.

Authors:  Van C Lansingh; Bickol N Mukesh; Jill E Keeffe; Hugh R Taylor
Journal:  Int Ophthalmol       Date:  2010-04-01       Impact factor: 2.031

5.  Impact of oral azithromycin on recurrence of trachomatous trichiasis in Nepal over 1 year.

Authors:  H Zhang; R P Kandel; H K Atakari; D Dean
Journal:  Br J Ophthalmol       Date:  2006-05-10       Impact factor: 4.638

Review 6.  Face washing promotion for preventing active trachoma.

Authors:  Henry O D Ejere; Mahmoud B Alhassan; Mansur Rabiu
Journal:  Cochrane Database Syst Rev       Date:  2015-02-20

Review 7.  Face washing promotion for preventing active trachoma.

Authors:  Henry O D Ejere; Mahmoud B Alhassan; Mansur Rabiu
Journal:  Cochrane Database Syst Rev       Date:  2012-04-18

8.  How to (or not to) integrate vertical programmes for the control of major neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.

Authors:  Narcis B Kabatereine; Mwele Malecela; Mounir Lado; Sam Zaramba; Olga Amiel; Jan H Kolaczinski
Journal:  PLoS Negl Trop Dis       Date:  2010-06-29

9.  Eradicating blinding trachoma: What is working?

Authors:  Imtiaz A Chaudhry
Journal:  Saudi J Ophthalmol       Date:  2009-12-21

10.  [Tropical ophthalmology--prevention and therapy"Vision 2020--the right to sight"].

Authors:  V Klauss; U C Schaller
Journal:  Ophthalmologe       Date:  2004-06-16       Impact factor: 1.059
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