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Trachoma Surveillance Report 2006 to 2010

National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit

The National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit (NTSRU) was established in November 2006 to improve the quality and consistency of data collection and reporting of active trachoma in Australia.

The NTSRU have reported data for regions identified a potentially experiencing endemic trachoma in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia for 2006 to 2010. Aboriginal children aged 1 to 9 years were examined for active trachoma using the World Health Organization simplified trachoma grading system.

This page contains links to trachoma surveillance annual reports from 2006 to 2010 and related Communicable Diseases Intelligence articles.

Annual Surveillance Reports

2010 Surveillance report for active trachoma annual report (PDF 3906 KB)
HTML version : 2010 Surveillance report for active trachoma annual report

2009 Surveillance report for active trachoma annual report (PDF 1622 KB)

2008 Surveillance report for active trachoma annual report (PDF 2541 KB)

2007 Surveillance report for active trachoma annual report (PDF 898 KB)

2006 Surveillance report for active trachoma annual report (PDF 2444 KB)

Communicable Diseases Intelligence Articles

2009 CDI Article on Trachoma Surveillance Report
PDF printable version: 2009 CDI Article on Trachoma Surveillance Report (PDF 533 KB)

2008 CDI Article on Trachoma Surveillance Report
PDF printable version: 2008 CDI Article on Trachoma Surveillance Report (PDF 254 KB)

2007 CDI Article on Trachoma Surveillance Report
PDF printable version: 2007 CDI Article on Trachoma Surveillance Report (PDF 234 KB)

2006 CDI Article on Trachoma Surveillance Report
PDF printable version:2006 CDI Article on Trachoma Surveillance Report (PDF 384 KB)

Other Trachoma publications:

Guidelines for the public health management of trachoma in Australia
The Guidelines available here provide information relevant to the needs of medical practitioners, primary health care professionals, and State/Territory and regional public health units. The Guidelines establish a minimum best-practice approach for the public health management of trachoma.

Review of Current Arrangements for the Collection, Recording, Transfer and Reporting of National Trachoma Data

If you are having touble downloading the PDF documents, please email OATSIH Enquiries or call (02) 6289 5291.