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Modelling trachoma post-2020: opportunities for mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and accelerating progress towards elimination
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted planned annual antibiotic mass drug administration (MDA) activities that have formed the cornerstone of the largely successful global efforts to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. Methods Using a mathematical model we investigate the impact of interruption to MDA in trachoma-endemic settings. We evaluate potential measures to mitigate this impact and consider alternative strategies for accelerating progress in those areas where the t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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World Health Organization
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Journal website
- Volume:
- 115
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 213-221
- Place of publication:
- England
- Publication date:
- 2021-02-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1878-3503
- ISSN:
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0035-9203
- Pmid:
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33596317
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1163118
- Local pid:
- pubs:1163118
- Deposit date:
- 2021-10-06
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- Copyright holder:
- World Health Organization
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © World Health Organization, 2021. All rights reserved. The World Health Organization has granted the Publisher permission for the reproduction of this article. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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