Tropical Data: Approach and Methodology as Applied to Trachoma Prevalence Surveys

作者：Emma Michele Harding-Esch, Clara R. Burgert‐Brucker, Cristina Jimenez, Ana Bakhtiari, Rebecca Willis, Michael Dejene Bejiga, Caleb Damilep Mpyet, Jeremiah Ngondi, Sarah Elizabeth Boyd, Mariamo Abdala, Amza Abdou, Yilikal Adamu, Addisu Alemayehu, Wondu Alemayehu, Tawfik K. Al-Khatib, Sue-Chen Apadinuwe, Naomi Awaca, Marcel S Awoussi, Gilbert Baayendag, Mouctar Dieng Badiane, Robin L. Bailey, Wilfrid E. Batcho, Zulficar Bay, Assumpta Lucienne Bella, Beido Nassirou, Yak Yak Bol, Clarisse Bougouma, Christopher J. Brady, Victor Bucumi, Robert Butcher, Risiate Cakacaka, Anaseini Cama, M Camara, Eunice Teixeira da Silva Cassama, Shorai Grace Chaora, Amel Chenaoui Chebbi, Alvin Chisambi, Brian K Chu, Abdulai Mahmood Conteh, Sidi Mohamed Coulibaly, Paul D. Courtright, Abdi Dalmar, Tran Minh Dat, Thully Davids, Mohamed El Amine Djaker, Maria de Fátima Costa Lopes, Djore Dézoumbé, Sarity Dodson, Philip Downs, Stephanie Eckman, Bilghis Elkhair Elshafie, Mourad Elmezoghi, Ange Aba Elvis, Paul M. Emerson, Emilienne Epée, Daniel Faktaufon, Mawo Fall, Aréty Fassinou, Fiona M. Fleming, Rebecca Mann Flueckiger, Koizan Kadjo Gamael, Mackline Garae, Jambi N. Garap, Katie Gass, Genet Gebru, Michael Mbee Gichangi, Emanuele Giorgi, André Goepogui, Daniela Vaz Ferreira Gómez, Diana Paola Gómez Forero, Emily West Gower, Anna J. Harte, Rob Henry, Harvy Alberto Honorio-Morales, D Ilako, Amadou Alfa Bio Issifou, Ellen Whiteman Jones, George Kabona, Martin Kaboré, Boubacar Kadri, Khumbo Kalua, Sarjo Kanyi, Shambel Kebede, Fikreab Kebede, Jeremy David Keenan, Amir Bedri Kello, Asad Aslam Khan, Houria Khelifi, Janvier Ngoy Kilangalanga, Sung Hye Kim, Robert Ko, Susan Lewallen, Thomas M. Lietman, Makoy Samuel Yibi Logora, Yuri A Lopez, Chad MacArthur, Colin Macleod, Felix Makangila, Bréhima Mariko, Diana L. Martin, Michael Peter Masika, Patrick Massae, Marilia Massangaie, Hadley S. Matendechero, Tsedeke Mathewos, Siobhain McCullagh, Aboulaye Meïté, Elsa P. Mendes, Hirpa M Abdi, Hollman Miller, Abdellahi Minnih, Sailesh Kumar Mishra, Tuduetso Leka Molefi, Aryc W. Mosher, Nerkoua M’Po, Francis Mugume, Robson Mukwiza, Consity Mwale, Stephen Mwatha, Upendo Mwingira, Scott D. Nash, Christophe Nassa, Nebiyu Negussu, Cece Nieba, Jean Claude Noah Noah, Christian Nwosu, Nicholas P. Olobio, Rapheal Opon, Alexandre L. Pavluck, Isaac Phiri, Merelesita Rainima-Qaniuci, Kristen K. Renneker, Martha Idalí Saboyá-Díaz, Fatoumata Sakho, Salimato Sanha, Virginia Sarah, Boubacar Sarr, Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Ahmad Shah Salam, Shekhar Sharma, Fikre Seife, Gloria Marina Serrano Chávez, Mactar Sissoko, Henis Mior Sitoe, Oliver Sokana, Fentahun Tadesse, Fasiah Taleo, Sandra Liliana Talero, Youcef Tarfani, Amsayaw Tefera, Rabebe Tekeraoi, Andeberhan Tesfazion, Abubaker Traina, Lamine Traoré, Julián Trujillo-Trujillo, Edridah Muheki Tukahebwa, Praveen Vashist, Ernest B Wanyama, Supriya Warusavithana, Titus Watitu, Sheila K. West, Ye Win, Geordie Woods, Aya Yajima, Georges Yaya, Alem Zecarias, Solomon Zewengiel, Akoi Zoumanigui, Pamela J. Hooper, Tom Millar, Lisa A. Rotondo, Anthony W. Solomon · 发表于：Ophthalmic Epidemiology · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1080/09286586.2023.2249546 · 被引用次数：36 · 研究领域：Reproductive tract infections research、Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment、Cervical Cancer and HPV Research

PURPOSE: Population-based prevalence surveys are essential for decision-making on interventions to achieve trachoma elimination as a public health problem. This paper outlines the methodologies of Tropical Data, which supports work to undertake those surveys. METHODS: Tropical Data is a consortium of partners that supports health ministries worldwide to conduct globally standardised prevalence surveys that conform to World Health Organization recommendations. Founding principles are health ministry ownership, partnership and collaboration, and quality assurance and quality control at every step of the survey process. Support covers survey planning, survey design, training, electronic data collection and fieldwork, and data management, analysis and dissemination. Methods are adapted to meet local context and needs. Customisations, operational research and integration of other diseases into routine trachoma surveys have also been supported. RESULTS: April 2023, 3373 trachoma surveys across 50 countries have been supported, resulting in 10,818,502 people being examined for trachoma. CONCLUSION: This health ministry-led, standardised approach, with support from the start to the end of the survey process, has helped all trachoma elimination stakeholders to know where interventions are needed, where interventions can be stopped, and when elimination as a public health problem has been achieved. Flexibility to meet specific country contexts, adaptation to changes in global guidance ...