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Community Eye Health J Vol. 17 No.52 DECEMBER 2004

What’s new in trachoma control?

EDITORIAL
What’s new in trachoma control?
Jacob Kumaresan

ARTICLES
What’s new in trichiasis surgery?
Matthew Burton and Anthony Solomon

What’s new in azithromycin?
Anthony Solomon and Matthew Burton

Health promotion for trachoma control
Marcia Zondervan

Lessons from the Moroccan National Trachoma Control Programme
Youssef Chami

The evidence base for trachoma interventions
Richard Wormald

ABSTRACTS
Face washing promotion for preventing active trachoma
Ejere H, Alhassan MB, Rabiu M.

Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002
Resnikoff S, Pascolini D, Etya’ale D, Kocur I, Pararajasegaram R, Pokharel GP, Mariotti SP.

Gender equity and trichiasis surgery in the Vietnam and Tanzania national trachoma control programmes
West S, Nguyen MP, Mkocha H, Holdsworth G, Ngirwamungu E, Kilima P, Munoz B.

Global burden of trachoma and economics of the disease
Frick KD, Hanson CL, Jacobson GA.

Mass treatment with single-dose azithromycin for trachoma
Solomon AW, Holland MJ, Alexander ND, Massae PA, Aguirre A, Natividad-Sancho A, et al.

EXCHANGE
2003/04 ICEH Community Eye Health MSc Dissertation Summaries
Edited and introduced by Daksha Patel

Simcoe cannula construction can endanger surgical outcome
Brian Savage

Submissions to Exchange

NOTICES
Note from the Editor

Useful resources (trachoma)

Highlights from the 7th General Assembly, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Dubai 2004

LSHTM Courses: MSc Community Eye Health

Reader survey prize draw

Royal College of Ophthalmologists EXAMINATION CALENDAR 2004/5 (UK and Overseas)

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