Financial/Cultural Costs (socioeconomic)
The Moroccan administration, with external assistance from the
United Nations Children's Financing and a public-private
partnership called the International Trachoma Project, has
offered the bulk of the program funding. The pharmaceutical
company Pfizer has donated more than $72 million value of its
antimicrobial Zithromax through such a collaboration.
In the mid-80s, the Edna McConnell Clark Hospital
reinvigorated trachoma through the funding of comprehensive
epidemiological studies and feasible management options. The
research also helped to develop a new, systematic trachoma
treatment and prevention approach. The technique was dubbed
"SAFE," and reflects the four key strategies–Surgery,
antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental change.
Financial/Cultural Costs (socioeconomic)
Eliminating the insect vector in infested homes was a critical
first step, and the technological and operating processes to
achieve this goal are now proven successful and cost-effective.
Medical management of houses with long-lasting pyrethroid
insecticides has removed or greatly reduced the population of
insect vectors in the entire southern cone. Spray teams operated
through the health ministries treat every house in local
governments where the existence of the vector has been verified.
Around 1992 and 2001, they sprayed over 2.5 million houses.
Canisters which emit insecticidal fumes have also been
distributed to households when lit.
Outcome of Intervention
Government officials at the Health Ministry worked swiftly to
Outcome of Intervention

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