Systemic Antibiotics for Communitywide Trachoma Control Mass Treatment With Single-Dose Azithromycin for Trachoma.

Discusses a study of communitywide treatment with azithromycin conducted in Ethiopia. Infection rates at the two- and six-month follow-up points; Confirmation of the value of intensive, communitywide treatment; Results suggesting that global partnership, Global Eradication of Trachoma (GET 20/20), has a practical and potentially highly effective tool in its arsenal.