Studies such as these are crucial to the start of raising awareness, and starting efforts to address how trachoma control will be accomplished so as to achieve the goal of elimination by 2020. 1. Mariotti SP, Pascolini D, Rose-nussbaumer J. Trachoma: global magnitude of a preventable cause of blindness. Br J Ophthalmol 2009. 93: 563-8. Cited: 2010 Aug 19. Available from: http://bjo.bmj.com/content/93/5/563.full.pdf 2. World Hersalth Organization. Global elimination of blinding trachoma. Fifty-first World Health Assembly 1998: Resolution WHA 51.11. Resolution Cited: 2010 Aug 19. Available from: http://www.who.int/blindness/causes/WHA51.11/en/index.html
Estudios como éste son fundamentales para empezar a concientizar a la comunidad y para comenzar los esfuerzos para determinar cómo lograr el control del tracoma, con el fin de alcanzar la meta de su eliminación para el año 2020.