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- Rebecca M Flueckiger1,
- Paul Courtright2,
- Mariamo Abdala3,
- Amza Abdou4,
- Zaid Abdulnafea5,
- Tawfik K Al-Khatib6,
- Khaled Amer7,
- Olga Nelson Amiel8,
- Sossinou Awoussi9,
- Ana Bakhtiari10,
- Wilfried Batcho11,
- Assumpta Lucienne Bella12,
- Kamal Hashim Bennawi13,
- Simon J Brooker14,
- Brian K Chu15,
- Michael Dejene16,
- Djore Dezoumbe17,
- Balgesa Elkheir Elshafie18,
- Aba Ange Elvis19,
- Djouma Nembot Fabrice20,
- Fatma Juma Omar21,
- Missamou François22,
- Drabo François23,
- Jambi Garap24,
- Michael Gichangi25,
- André Goepogui26,
- Jaouad Hammou27,
- Boubacar Kadri28,
- George Kabona29,
- Martin Kabore30,
- Khumbo Kalua31,
- Mathias Kamugisha32,
- Biruck Kebede33,
- Kaba Keita34,
- Asad Aslam Khan35,
- Genet Kiflu36,
- Garae Mackline37,
- Colin Macleod38,
- Portia Manangazira39,
- Michael P Masika40,
- Marilia Massangaie41,
- Taka Fira Mduluza42,
- Nabicassa Meno43,
- Nicholas Midzi44,
- Abdallahi Ould Minnih45,
- Sailesh Mishra46,
- Caleb Mpyet47,
- Nicholas Muraguri48,
- Upendo Mwingira49,
- Beido Nassirou50,
- Jean Ndjemba51,
- Cece Nieba52,
- Jeremiah Ngondi53,
- Nicholas Olobio54,
- Alex Pavluck55,
- Isaac Phiri56,
- Rachel Pullan57,
- Babar Qureshi58,
- Boubacar Sarr59,
- Do Seiha60,
- Gloria Marina Serrano Chávez61,
- Shekhar Sharma62,
- Siphetthavong Sisaleumsak63,
- Khamphoua Southisombath64,
- Gretchen Stevens65,
- Andeberhan Tesfazion Woldendrias66,
- Lamine Traoré67,
- Patrick Turyaguma68,
- Rebecca Willis69,
- Georges Yaya70,
- Souleymane Yeo71,
- Francisco Zambroni72,
- Jialiang Zhao73 and
- Anthony W Solomon74
- 1Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- 2Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology, Division of Ophthalmology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- 3Ministerio da Saude, Maputo, Mozambique
- 4Ministère de la Santé et de la population, Niamey, Niger
- 5Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq
- 6National Eye Health Programme, Ministry of Public Health and Population, Sana’a, Yemen
- 7Ministry of Health, Egypt
- 8Ministerio da Saude, Maputo, Mozambique
- 9Ministère de la Santé, Lomé, Togo
- 10The Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 11Ministère de la Santé, Cotonou, Benin
- 12Ministère de la Santé, Yaoundé, Cameroun
- 13Prevention of Blindness Program, Khartoum, Sudan Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- 14London, United Kingdom; Global Health, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA
- 15The Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 16Michael Dejene Public Health Consultancy Services, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 17Ministère de la Santé, Chad
- 18Trachoma Control Program, National Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan
- 19Programme National de la Santé Oculaire et de la lutte contre I’Onchocercose, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- 20Ministère d la Santé, Yaoundé, Cameroun
- 21Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania
- 22Bureau des Maladies Oculaires, Ministère de la Santé, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 23Programme national de lutte contre les maladies tropicales négligées (PNMTN), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- 24National Department of Health, Papua New Guinea
- 25Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
- 26Programme National de Lutte Contre I’Onchocercose et la Cécité et les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Conakry, Guinea
- 27Ministry of Health, Rabat, Morocco
- 28Ministère de la Santé et de la population, Niamey, Niger
- 29Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
- 30I’unité d’élimination du trachome, PNMTN, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- 31Department of Ophthalmology, University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
- 32National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
- 33Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 34Programme National de Lutte Contre I’Onchocercose et la Cécité et les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Conakry, Guinea
- 35Ministry of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan
- 36Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 37Ministry of Health, Port Vila, Vanuatu
- 38Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- 39Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Ministry of Health & Child Welfare, Harare, Zimbabwe
- 40Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
- 41Ministerio da Saude, Maputo, Mozambique
- 42Department of Biochemistry, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- 43Ministère de la Santé, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- 44Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- 45Minister de la Sante, Nouakchott, Mauritania
- 46Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh, Kathmandu, Nepal
- 47Sightsavers Nigeria, Kaduna, Nigeria & Department of Ophthalmology, Jos University, Jos, Nigeria
- 48Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
- 49Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
- 50Ministère de la Santé et de la population, Niamey, Niger
- 51Bureau des Maladies Oculaires, Ministère de la Santé, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 52Programme National de Lutte Contre I’Onchocercose et la Cécité et les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Conakry, Guinea
- 53RTI International, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
- 54Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria
- 55RTI International, Washington DC, USA
- 56Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Ministry of Health & Child Welfare, Harare, Zimbabwe
- 57Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- 58Christian Blind Mission, Bensheim, Germany
- 59Ministère de la santé et de I’Action Sociale, Dakar, Senegal
- 60Prevention of Blindness Programme, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- 61Ministry of Health, Guatemala City, Guatemala
- 62Ministry of Health, Kathmandu, Nepal
- 63National Ophthalmology Centre, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- 64National Program for the Prevention of Blindness, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- 65Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- 66Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Asmara, Eritrea
- 67Ministère de la Santé, Bamako, Mali
- 68Trachoma Program, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda
- 69The Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 70Ministère de la Santé Publique, Bangui, Central African Republic
- 71Programme National de la Santé Oculaire et de la lutte contre I’Onchocercose, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- 72Ministry of Health, Guatemala City, Guatemala
- 73Department of Ophthalmology, Peking Union Medical Colllege Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
- 74Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva