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Below you can access three articles which exemplify some of the methods used to collect and process samples as part of 'plus' surveys. Click on picture to download. ...
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Click here for our Introduction to adaptations being made to Tropical Data to incorporate serology and infection data collection ...
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In this section you can find relevant articles on model-based geostastics, including trachoma and other NTDs. Sasanami et al., 2023 Sasanami and Giorgi_2023.pdf Johnson et al., 2021 Johnson and Diggle_2021.pdf ...
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Created On: 02/11/2023
in Geostatistical approaches Glossary of terms Binomial model : A statistical model used to analyse data with two possible outcomes, typically denoted as "success" and "failure." Covariate : A variable that is not the primary focus of a study but is c...
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This is a technical decision and a political one. We will seek advice from the SAG to help make recommendations to health ministries for such scenarios.
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All outputs from the model will be owned by the countries whose data were used to generate them.
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MBG was officially confirmed as an acceptable method to demonstrate that TT prevalence was below the elimination threshold at the 4th Global Scientific Meeting on Trachoma in 2018 (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-htm-ntd-pct-2019.03) a...
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Currently, the MBG models require intensive computations and the larger the datasets that have to be processed, the longer it takes - some take up to a week to generate results! It is therefore not yet possible for Tropical Data or Lancaster Univers...
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Funding is currently provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) via the Task Force for Global Health, until May 2024.
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Theoretically yes, it is possible, however it would be context dependent. To date, MBG has been implemented to estimate trachoma prevalence for a specific area (usually an individual EU) by using data from a wider area within the same country. We ...