DISCUSSION
infection, Trachoma
TRACHOMA, INFECTION, TRACHOMA
After approximately 8 years of SAFE interventions including MDA, a considerable Since early in the program, it was observed that the trachoma prevalence in some districts in Amhara was not responding as quickly as expected to SAFE interventions. Reports of impact surveys conducted in the region demonstrated that some districts continued to have persistently hyperendemic levels of TF.Infection prevalence was much lower in districts closer to the elimination threshold. Although there was a strong district-level correlation between TF and Estimating the prevalence of The use of high-throughput methods at regional laboratories could make infection prevalence a feasible, objective programmatic indicator for trachoma. The Trachoma Control Program in Amhara has monitored Monitoring of ocular 