Trachoma elimination in Latin America: prioritization of municipalities for surveillance activities

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Martha Idalí Saboyá-Díaz, Angel F. Betanzos-Reyes, Sheila K. West, Beatriz Muñoz, Luis Gerardo Castellanos, Marcos Espinal
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2019
• Subjects: trachoma; neglected diseases; surveillance; latin america; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Argentina; Uruguay; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2019.93; https://doaj.org/article/30530c4b0ae344a78b237e83e32aac4c

Objective. To identify and prioritize municipalities in 22 countries of Latin America for trachoma surveillance activities, to measure the absence or prevalence of trachoma, and to support validation and trachoma elimination efforts in the Region of the Americas. Methods. A prioritization scale was...