World Health Organization : Year 1998 ; World Health Organization, Prevention of Blindness, Global Elimination of Blinding Trachoma, No. 98.2: Report of the Second Meeting of the World Health Organization Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1998 ; World Health Organization, Prevention of Blindness, Global Elimination of Blinding Trachoma, No. 98.2: Report of the Second Meeting of the World Health Organization Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma
Author:	World Health Organization
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Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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INTRODUCTION The Second Meeting of the WHO Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma was opened by Dr R. H. Henderson, Assistant Director-General who, in view of the expanding growth of the Alliance meetings, expressed his pleasure for seeing such momentum and commitment toward global elimination of trachoma. He pointed out that this Alliance which is based on pluridisciplinary and multi-sectorial collaboration (including research institutes, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, foundations, UN agencies and the pharmaceutical industry) was perceived as a new opportunity likely to serve as model for other WHO programme areas. He then reviewed the progress made so far by the Alliance and listed the ongoing and planned developments. Finally, he mentioned that a WHO resolution on trachoma would be submitted to the Executive Board for consideration and possible adoption on the occasion of its 101st session in January 1998. Mr R. Porter, Executive Director of Sight Savers International (SSI) and Dr L. Pizzarello, Medical Director of Helen Keller International (HKI) served as Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively, and Professor G. Johnson, Director of the International Centre for Eye Health as Rapporteur. The draft agenda (Annex 1) was adopted without modification and the list of participants is included in Annex 2.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 I. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN FOR THE GLOBAL ELIMINATION OF TRACHOMA (GET) (1 July-31 December 1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1 Secretariat of the World Health Organization’s Alliance (1 July- 31 December 97) 4 1.1.1 Country visits for national programme development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1.2 Preparation/production of documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1.3 Operations research and field studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.1.4 Progress on the Geographic Information System (GIS) for trachoma mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.1.5 Strengthening of Information Communication Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.2 Activities reported by endemic countries present at the meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.2.2 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2.3 The Gambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.2.4 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.2.5 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.3 Participating Organizations of the Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.3.1 African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) . . . . . . . . 13 1.3.2 Al-Noor Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.3.3 Christoffel Blindenmission e.V. (CBM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.3.4 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.3.5 The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.3.6 French Ministry of Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.3.7 Helen Keller International (HKI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.3.8 International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness . . . . . . . . 15 1.3.9 International Organization Against Trachoma (IOAT) . . . . . . . . 16 1.3.10 International Eye Foundation (IEF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.3.11 Organisation pour la Prévention de la Cécité (OPC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.3.11 Sight Savers International (SSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.3.12 Swiss Red Cross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2. DEVELOPMENT OF A TRACHOMA RAPID ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY . . . . . 17 2.1 Report on field use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.1.1 Recruitment of trichiasis cases in adults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.1.2 Diagnosis of active trachoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.2 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3. TRICHIASIS SURGERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.1 Field testing of low-cost surgical kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.2 Monitoring of training and quality of surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.3 Availability of a trichiasis surgery video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19