Trachoma Control: A Glass Half Full?

Awraris H Bilchut¹, Hadley R Burroughs², Catherine E Oldenburg^{2

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Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Asrat Woldeyes Health Science Campus, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
² Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁵ Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Editorial

Awraris H Bilchut et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023.

. 2023 Jan 9;108(2):237-238.

doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0760. Print 2023 Feb 1.

Awraris H Bilchut¹, Hadley R Burroughs², Catherine E Oldenburg^{2

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5}, Thomas M Lietman^{2

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¹ School of Public Health, Asrat Woldeyes Health Science Campus, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
² Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁵ Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

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