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Ilako D, Mwatha S, Wanyama BE, Gichangi M, Bore J, Butcher R, Bakhtiari A, Boyd S, Willis R, Solomon AW, Watitu T, Chelanga D, Nyakundi P, Harding-Esch EM, Matendechero SH. Progress Towards Elimination of Trachoma in Kenya 2017-2020. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2024:1-11. [PMID: 38320117 DOI: 10.1080/09286586.2023.2280987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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PURPOSE Trachoma is endemic in Kenya. Since baseline trachoma surveys in 2004, a concerted programme has been undertaken to reduce the prevalence of disease. Here, we report on trachoma prevalence surveys carried out between 2017 and 2020 after interventions were implemented in some areas for trachoma elimination purposes. METHODS A total of 48 cross-sectional population-based trachoma prevalence surveys were conducted in 39 evaluation units (EUs; covering 45 subcounties) of Kenya between 2017 and 2020. Thirty EUs were surveyed once and nine EUs were surveyed twice over this period. Individuals ≥ 1 year old were assessed for trachomatous inflammation-follicular (TF), trachomatous inflammation-intense (TI) and trichiasis. Data were collected on household access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). RESULTS A total of 147,573 people were examined. At the end of 2020, in the 39 EUs surveyed, the prevalence of TF in 1-9-year-olds was ≥5% in 11 EUs and the prevalence of trichiasis unknown to the health system in individuals aged ≥15 years was ≥0.2% in 25 EUs. A small minority of households (median <50% for all indicators) had access to improved WASH facilities. CONCLUSION Kenya has made excellent progress towards elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. However, there is more work to do. Between one and three rounds of antibiotic mass drug administration are required in 11 EUs. Sustained investment in surgical provision, continued TT case-finding, promotion of facial cleanliness and environmental improvement are required throughout the surveyed area.
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- D Ilako
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Ophthalmic Services Unit, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Kenya National Bureau of Statics, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
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- International Trachoma Initiative, Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- International Trachoma Initiative, Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- International Trachoma Initiative, Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Ophthalmic Services Unit, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Ophthalmic Services Unit, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
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- Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
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Hart JD, Kalua K, Keenan JD, Lietman TM, Bailey RL. Effect of Mass Treatment with Azithromycin on Causes of Death in Children in Malawi: Secondary Analysis from the MORDOR Trial. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2020; 103:1319-1328. [PMID: 32342837 PMCID: PMC7470551 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Recent evidence indicates mass drug administration with azithromycin may reduce child mortality. This study uses verbal autopsy (VA) to investigate the causes of individual deaths during the Macrolides Oraux pour Réduire les Décès avec un Oeil sur la Résistance (MORDOR) trial in Malawi. Cluster randomization was performed as part of MORDOR. Biannual household visits were conducted to distribute azithromycin or placebo to children aged 1–59 months and update the census to identify deaths for VA. MORDOR was not powered to investigate mortality effects at individual sites, but the available evidence is presented here for hypothesis generation regarding the mechanism through which azithromycin may reduce child mortality. Automated VA analysis was performed to infer the likely cause of death using two major analysis programs, InterVA and SmartVA. A total of 334 communities were randomized to azithromycin or placebo, with more than 130,000 person-years of follow-up. During the study, there were 1,184 deaths, of which 1,131 were followed up with VA. Mortality was 9% lower in azithromycin-treated communities than in placebo communities (rate ratio 0.91 [95% CI: 0.79–1.05]; P = 0.20). The intention-to-treat analysis by cause using InterVA suggested fewer HIV/AIDS deaths in azithromycin-treated communities (rate ratio 0.70 [95% CI: 0.50–0.97]; P = 0.03) and fewer pneumonia deaths (rate ratio 0.82 [95% CI: 0.60–1.12]; P = 0.22). The use of the SmartVA algorithm suggested fewer diarrhea deaths (rate ratio 0.71 [95% CI: 0.51–1.00]; P = 0.05) and fewer pneumonia deaths (rate ratio 0.58 [95% CI: 0.33–1.00]; P = 0.05). Although this study is not able to provide strong evidence, the data suggest that the mortality reduction during MORDOR in Malawi may have been due to effects on pneumonia and diarrhea or HIV/AIDS mortality.
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- John D Hart
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach and College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Hart JD, Kalua K, Keenan JD, Lietman TM, Bailey RL. Cost-Effectiveness of Mass Treatment with Azithromycin for Reducing Child Mortality in Malawi: Secondary Analysis from the MORDOR Trial. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2020; 103:1283-1290. [PMID: 32342840 PMCID: PMC7470598 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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The recent Macrolides Oraux pour Réduire les Décès avec un Oeil sur la Résistance (MORDOR) trial reported a reduction in child mortality following biannual azithromycin mass drug administration (MDA). Here, we investigate the financial costs and cost-effectiveness from the health provider perspective of azithromycin MDA at the MORDOR-Malawi study site. During MORDOR, a cluster-randomized trial involving biannual azithromycin MDA or placebo to children aged 1–59 months, fieldwork-related costs were collected, including personnel, transport, consumables, overheads, training, and supervision. Mortality rates in azithromycin- and placebo-treated clusters were calculated overall and for the five health zones of Mangochi district. These were used to estimate the number needed to treat to avert one death and the costs per death and disability-adjusted life year (DALY) averted. The cost per dose of MDA was $0.74 overall, varying between $0.63 and $0.94 in the five zones. Overall, the number needed to treat to avert one death was 1,213 children; the cost per death averted was $898.47, and the cost per DALY averted was $9.98. In the three zones where mortality was lower in azithromycin-treated clusters, the number needed to treat to avert one death, cost per death averted, and cost per DALY averted, respectively, were as follows: 3,070, $2,899.24, and $32.31 in Monkey Bay zone; 1,530, $1,214.42, and $13.49 in Chilipa zone; and 344, $217.98, and $2.42 in Namwera zone. This study is a preliminary cost-effectiveness analysis that indicates azithromycin MDA for reducing child mortality has the potential to be highly cost-effective in some settings in Malawi, but the reasons for geographical variation in effectiveness require further investigation.
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- John D Hart
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Francis I Proctor Foundation and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Califorina
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- Francis I Proctor Foundation and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Califorina
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Salman S, Baiwog F, Page-Sharp M, Kose K, Karunajeewa HA, Mueller I, Rogerson SJ, Siba PM, Ilett KF, Davis TME. Optimal antimalarial dose regimens for chloroquine in pregnancy based on population pharmacokinetic modelling. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2017; 50:542-551. [PMID: 28669839 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2017.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2017] [Revised: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 05/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Despite extensive use and accumulated evidence of safety, there have been few pharmacokinetic studies from which appropriate chloroquine (CQ) dosing regimens could be developed specifically for pregnant women. Such optimised CQ-based regimens, used as treatment for acute malaria or as intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), may have a valuable role if parasite CQ sensitivity returns following reduced drug pressure. In this study, population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modelling was used to simultaneously analyse plasma concentration-time data for CQ and its active metabolite desethylchloroquine (DCQ) in 44 non-pregnant and 45 pregnant Papua New Guinean women treated with CQ and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine or azithromycin (AZM). Pregnancy was associated with 16% and 49% increases in CQ and DCQ clearance, respectively, as well as a 24% reduction in CQ relative bioavailability. Clearance of DCQ was 22% lower in those who received AZM in both groups. Simulations based on the final multicompartmental model demonstrated that a 33% CQ dose increase may be suitable for acute treatment for malaria in pregnancy as it resulted in equivalent exposure to that in non-pregnant women receiving recommended doses, whilst a double dose would likely be required for an effective duration of post-treatment prophylaxis when used as IPTp especially in areas of CQ resistance. The impact of co-administered AZM was clinically insignificant in simulations. The results of past/ongoing trials employing recommended adult doses of CQ-based regimens in pregnant women should be interpreted in light of these findings, and consideration should be given to using increased doses in future trials.
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- Sam Salman
- School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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- Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, P.O. Box 378, Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
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- School of Pharmacy, Curtin University of Technology, Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
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- Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, P.O. Box 378, Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
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- Population Health and Immunity, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
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- Population Health and Immunity, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia; Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Carrer del Rosselló 132, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine (RMH), The University of Melbourne, 300 Grattan Street, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia
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- Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, P.O. Box 378, Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
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- School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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- School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
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