16 min

Episode 2: Mass Drug Administration Against Trachoma—What the Evidence Tells Us, with Tao Xiong Medspeak by CMJ

    • Life Sciences

Is mass drug administration effective against trachoma—a devastating infectious disease that causes blindness—in endemic countries? We speak with Dr. Tao Xiong, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics from West China Second University Hospital at Sichuan University, who attempts to address this question in a recent systematic review of the current evidence, and discusses how mass drug administration may need to be modified according to the endemicity of trachoma in a particular r...

Is mass drug administration effective against trachoma—a devastating infectious disease that causes blindness—in endemic countries? We speak with Dr. Tao Xiong, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics from West China Second University Hospital at Sichuan University, who attempts to address this question in a recent systematic review of the current evidence, and discusses how mass drug administration may need to be modified according to the endemicity of trachoma in a particular r...

16 min