Onchocerciasis and trachoma control: what has changed in the past two decades?

Trachoma and onchocerciasis are the two major infectious causes of blindness worldwide. Twenty years ago, the possibility of achieving worldwide and long-term control of these ancient scourges seemed remote and existing control programmes were deemed to have limited prospects. The picture is very di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel Etya’ale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), London 2008-09-01
Series:Community Eye Health Journal
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Online Access:http://www.cehjournal.org/0953-6833/21/jceh_21_67_043.htm