Impact of Community Mass Treatment with Azithromycin for Trachoma Elimination on the Prevalence of Yaws.
BACKGROUND:Community mass treatment with 30 mg/kg azithromycin is central to the new WHO strategy for eradicating yaws. Both yaws and trachoma--which is earmarked for elimination by 2020 using a strategy that includes mass treatment with 20 mg/kg azithromycin--are endemic in the Pacific, raising the...
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