About the Authors

Blaise Noa Noatina

noatina@yahoo.fr

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte Contre la Cécité, Ministère de la Santé, Yaoundé, Cameroun

Giles Kagmeni

Affiliation Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences Biomédicales, Université de Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroun

Marcellin Nimpa Mengouo

Affiliation World Health Organization, Yaoundé, Cameroun

Henri Claude Moungui

Affiliation Délégation Régionale de la Santé Publique de l'Extrême-Nord, Maroua, Cameroun

Ann Tarini

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Yaoundé, Cameroun

Yaobi Zhang

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Regional Office for Africa, Dakar, Senegal

Assumpta Lucienne Françoise Bella

Affiliations Programme National de Lutte Contre la Cécité, Ministère de la Santé, Yaoundé, Cameroun, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences Biomédicales, Université de Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroun

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BNN GK MNM AT ALFB. Performed the experiments: BNN MNM. Analyzed the data: HCM YZ. Wrote the paper: BNN YZ. Coordinated the program and the study: BNN AT.