“Chlamydia and Trachoma – Will they ever disappear?”
Melbourne Laureate Professor Hugh R Taylor AC head of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne recently delivered a lecture on “Chlamydia and Trachoma – Will they ever disappear?” at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Healt
The lecture is spilt into three parts:
- Chlamydia and Trachoma (21:37 minutes)
- History
- Epidemiology
- Distribution
- Detection
- Grading
- Immunology
- Pathology
- Trachoma (9:01 minutes)
- Global efforts to eliminate trachoma
- Antibiotics
- Mapping
- Distribution
- Elimination
- IEH’s work in eliminating Trachoma in Australia and questions (25:26 minutes)
- History
- Prevalence
- Work to eliminate trachoma
- SAFE strategy in Australian context
- Housing and education
- Health promotion
- Trichiasis
- Questions – Trachoma before colonisation, flies and immunity