About the Authors

Julián Trujillo-Trujillo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

jtrujillotru@unbosque.edu.co

Affiliations Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Subdirection of Communicable Diseases, Bogotá, Colombia, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia-UNAD, Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud (ECISA), Bogotá, Colombia

Sandra Liliana Bello-Pérez

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Subdirection of Communicable Diseases, Bogotá, Colombia

Clara Beatriz López de Mesa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Escuela Superior de Oftalmología, Clínica Barraquer de América, Bogotá, Colombia, Instituto Barraquer de América, Bogotá, Colombia

Rebecca Willis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation International Trachoma Initiative, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GeorgiaUnited States of America

Ana Bakhtiari

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Trachoma Initiative, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GeorgiaUnited States of America

Emma Harding-Esch

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Angela María Gutiérrez

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Escuela Superior de Oftalmología, Clínica Barraquer de América, Bogotá, Colombia, Instituto Barraquer de América, Bogotá, Colombia

Charles MacArthur

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health, United States of America

Caleb Mpyet

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sightsavers, Nigeria

Anthony William Solomon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Alex Pavluck

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation RTI International, Atlanta, United States of America

Pamela J. Hooper

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Trachoma Initiative, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GeorgiaUnited States of America

María Consuelo Bernal Lizarazu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia-UNAD, Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud (ECISA), Bogotá, Colombia

Myriam Leonor Torres

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia-UNAD, Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud (ECISA), Bogotá, Colombia

Alejandro Rico

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia

Olga Esther Bellido Cuéllar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Secretaría de Salud de Amazonas, Leticia, Colombia

Carol Viviana Araque

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Secretaría de Salud de Amazonas, Leticia, Colombia

John Jairo Nathy

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Secretaría de Salud de Putumayo, Mocoa, Colombia

Diana Cedeño

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Secretaría de Salud de Guaviare, San José del Guaviare, Colombia

Carlos Fabián Suta

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Secretaría de Salud de Guaviare, San José del Guaviare, Colombia

Tatiana Parra

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Secretaría de Salud de Guainía, Inírida, Colombia

Jakelinne Cruz Escobar

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Secretaría de Salud de Caquetá, Florencia, Colombia

Karen Cárdenas-Garzón

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Secretaría de Salud de Vichada, Puerto Carreño, Colombia

Andrés Alejandro Mejía López

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Subdirection of Communicable Diseases, Bogotá, Colombia

Mónica Patricia Meza

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Subdirection of Communicable Diseases, Bogotá, Colombia

Pablo Montoya

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations RTI International, Atlanta, United States of America, Sinergias ONG, Bogotá, Colombia

Ana Judith Blanco

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sinergias ONG, Bogotá, Colombia

Luz Mery Bernal Parra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia-UNAD, Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud (ECISA), Bogotá, Colombia

Competing Interests

RW, AB and PJH are employees of the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), a program of The Task Force for Global Health, which receives an operating budget and research funds from Pfizer Inc., the manufacturers of Zithromax (azithromycin). EMHE receives salary support from ITI. The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on the maps in this article do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated.