Community Eye Health Journal (Dec 2004)
Lessons from the Moroccan National Trachoma Control Programme
Abstract
In 1992, the Moroccan Programme for the Prevention of Blindness (Programme Marocain de Lutte contre la Cécité) completed a nationwide survey of the prevalence of visual impairment and its causes in Morocco. Since then, the prevention of trachoma has been a key priority of the Programme for the Prevention of Blindness. In Morocco, blinding trachoma is confined to five southern provinces: Errachidia, Figuig, Ouarzazate, Tata and Zagora. These provinces account for 25% of the total area of the country, with a population of 1,619,000.