International Trachoma Initiative and the Task Force for Child Survival and Development Announce New Merger to Eliminate Blinding Trachoma and Fight Against Other Neglected Tropical Diseases

NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) and the Task Force for Child Survival and Development announced today that they will join forces to leverage resources and scale up efforts to eliminate blinding trachoma. Trachoma, a Neglected Tropical Dise...

Annual Trachoma Treatments May Be Unnecessary

One or 2 rounds of antibiotics sufficient to treat eye disease, study finds WEDNESDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- In communities with moderate levels of the eye disease trachoma, one or two rounds of high coverage mass treatment with the antibiotic azithromycin may be sufficient to...

Blindness And Trachoma

A study in the September 27 issue of JAMA says that using antibiotic azithromycin to treat trachoma in Vietnam had increased the risk of reinfections.// Trachoma is an infectious disease where scar tissue forms underneath the eyelid. In 1995 the WHO reported that 15 percent of all blindness was cau...

New Test For Detecting Trachoma

Trachoma, an infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria leads to blindness in over one million women and children. Although the infection is very treatable there is a difficulty// in diagnosing it accurately especially in remote areas. Now scientists have developed a ‘sight-saving’ dipstick...

New rapid Chlamydia test could enable 'test and treat' strategy

...ealth Category for the Signal Amplification System they developed, technology that underpins and improves the sensitivity of rapid tests. Chlamydia trachoma is the world's most prevalent sexually transmitted bacterial infection. According to the Health Protection Agency, the number of diagnoses in the UK h...

Newly Identified Strains Of Chlamydia Trachomatis – A Gateway To New Disease

...rent strains are responsible for different diseases. Some strains cause sexually transmitted diseases while others cause eye infections. Blinding trachoma is caused by repeated eye infections that cause scarring, which result in the eyelashes turning in-wards. Bacterial infection develops as the eyelashe...

Trachoma not Curable by Antibiotics Alone

...tnam has indicated that antibiotic therapy against trachoma is not effective in the long term. When children affected with trachoma //(second leading cause of blindness after catarac...y face blindness. The WHO strategy to combat trachoma is four pronged. They are-antibiotic therapy...

Flying Eye Hospital Brings Hope for Eye Patients in Africa

... "Cataract blindness accounts for half of these cases," the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said. Glaucoma accounts for 15 to 20 percent of cases, trachoma five percent, childhood blindness 5 to 10 percent and 10 percent owing to other causes. Medical authorities say the figures are high, especially...

Blinding-Disease Surgery Is Done Safely in Villages, by Nonphysicians

...n-preserving surgery for a blinding disease called trachoma trichiasis, a new review has found.// The rev...iple personal and societal barriers to surgery for trachoma trichiasis,” said lead author David Yorston, of th...he WHO is leading a global initiative to eliminate trachoma as a blinding disease by 2020 with a four-part str...

Trachoma cannot be obliterated with just one dose of antibiotic

... of the American Medical Association. Young children show higher tendencies of contracting the infection, which ultimately results in blindness. trachoma is known to afflict an estimated 84 million people worldwide, and the poor in Africa seem to show a tendency to contract it. ...

Trachoma in Medical Definition

Pathology

..., Quadrantanopia ) - Color blindness ( Achromatopsia ) - Nyctalopia - Blindness / Low vision Commonly associated infectious diseases trachoma - Onchocerciasis Other Glaucoma - Floater - Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy - Red eye - Argyll Robertson pupil - Keratomycos...

Trachoma in Medical Dictionary

Trachoma

Trachoma is an infectious eye disease, and the leading cause of the world's infectious blindness. Globally, 84 million people suffer from active infection and nearly 8 million people are visually impaired as a result of this... Includes information on trachoma , prevention, treatment...

Scleritis

...pes ... If scleritis is unresponsive to or intolerant of systemic corticosteroids or the ... scleritis . systemic lupus erythematosus. trachoma ... Scleritis is most common among people aged 30 through 60 and affects women more often than men. ... Scleritis is an inflammatory disease...

Trachoma in Biological News

Multiple species of bacteria may cause trachoma: Implications for treatment

...he Chlamydiceae family of bacteria are involved in trachoma would involve a re-evaluation of vaccines and trea...lds, they found that a third of the people who had trachoma were infected with only C. trachomatis, including ...two or three species. Interventions to prevent trachoma by improving personal hygiene such as the SAFE in...

High levels of blindness in southern Sudan following years of war

...f infection. In adults, one in five had trichiasis caused by trachoma. trachoma can be passed from one person to another through contact with hands and clo...lso very effective. The World Health Organization recommends a strategy for trachoma control known as ‘SAFE? surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and envir...

A New Era of Hope for the World's Most Neglected Diseases

...single delivery mechanism in order to simultaneously target lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminthiases, schistosomiasis, and trachoma (Lancet 365: 1029?030). Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the neglected diseases have at long last caught the attention of the international d...

Trachoma in Biological Technology

New Leadership Team at International Trachoma Initiative to Build Stronger Partnerships to Eliminate Blinding Trachoma

Priority is collaborating effectively with government and NGO partners and strengthening the supply chain for delivering Pfizer-donated Zithromax ATLANTA, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) has a new leadership team focused on creating effective col...