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The International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) was founded in 1998 in response to the World Health Organization’s call to eliminate blinding trachoma by the year 2020 (GET2020). ITI’s founding partners, Pfizer and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, saw the need for an international nongovernmental organization dedicated solely to preventing blinding trachoma.
This manual has been written for use by trachoma program managers and other partners in order to support and guide the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the antibiotic component of the SAFE strategy.
While antibiotics alone will not eliminate blinding trachoma and sustain its elimination, the generous donation of Zithromax® by Pfizer Inc. is enabling countries to move forward more quickly towards their elimination goals.
Alternative antibiotic therapies are available for endemic countries that are not included in the ITI program. This guide, however, was written especially for Pfizer Inc.’s donation of Zithromax® . The drug donation also allows the global trachoma community to mobilize the additional resources and support necessary in order for the goal of GET2020 to become a reality.
The International Trachoma Initiative, 2010
Access the full guide at http://trachoma.org/sites/default/files/guidesandmanuals/Zithromax%20manager’s%20guide.pdf
Inclusiveness and Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities
The WHO Vision and eye screening implementation handbook (VESIH) offers a step-by-step guidance for conducting vision and eye screenings in community and primary care settings.
The 2023 Annual Report of CBM's eye care work across its programmes. Inclusive, comprehensive and integrated- CBM's Eye Health Initiative reports on it latest work in eye health.
This guidance aims to facilitate the monitoring of both eye and ear care services through presenting a set of core facility indicators along with considerations for analysis and use of routine health information
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) have collaborated to produce a report on Eye Health and the World of Work
This report was authored by the Deloitte Center for Health Economics working with Roche and IAPB
ROP related blindness can be prevented by improving comprehensive preterm care and screening at appropriate time.
Exploring the Impact of Environmental Conditions on the Ocular Surface - A Review of Risk Factors
Interventions To Slow The Progression Of Myopia
