52
Participants
Start Date
January 31, 2013
Primary Completion Date
December 31, 2015
Study Completion Date
February 29, 2016
Surveillance and treatment with azithromycin of newcomer and traveler families
The intervention is a surveillance for newcomers and travelers in communities, and provision of azithromycin to them at the time of arrival, in advance of scheduled mass drug administration
Usual care
Scheduled mass drug administration (MDA) of azithromycin if trachoma infection level is greater than 1% or TF is 5% or more. Communities will have MDA stopped if infection is 1% or less, or TF is less than 5%. MDA will be reinstated if infection re-emerges to 6% or more.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
National Eye Institute (NEI)
NIH
Johns Hopkins University
OTHER