About the Authors
- Esmael Habtamu
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Affiliations London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, The Carter Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Saul N. Rajak
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Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Teshome Gebre
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Affiliation The Carter Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Mulat Zerihun
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Affiliation The Carter Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Asrat Genet
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Affiliation The Amhara Regional Health Bureau, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
- Paul M. Emerson
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Affiliation The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Matthew J. Burton
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* E-mail: matthew.burton@lshtm.ac.uk
Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Several Carter Center employees (TG, MZ, PM) received salary funding to deliver the Lions-Carter Center SightFirst Initiative trachoma control programme, part of which is the subject of this study.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EH SNR TG MZ AG PME MJB. Performed the experiments: EH. Analyzed the data: EH SNR MJB. Wrote the paper: EH MJB. Edited the paper: SNR TG MZ AG PME.