Abstract
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Highlights
Data collection for monitoring and evaluation of international development projects can be difficult, costly, and time consuming
Data collection was conducted in local languages by trained data collectors and supervised by SPRING staff, STAR-EC staff, and consultants
The Worldwide Orphans/AIDS Healthcare Foundation (WWO/AHF) Family Health Clinic aims to provide comprehensive and continuous care to orphans, vulnerable children, and adult family members with HIV/AIDS in Addis Ababa. The aim of this quality improvement project was to set up a system at the WWO/AHF Family Health Clinic for sustainably screening the vision and tracking the treatment of all the patients at the clinic to ensure that they receive prompt, appropriate ophthalmologic care
Summary
Background: The prevalence of low vision and blindness in Ethiopia are 3.7% and 1.6%, respectively. Major causes of vision loss and/or blindness include refractive error, cataract, glaucoma, trachomatous corneal opacity, cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, uveitis, ophthalmic herpes zoster, etc. While the majority of these conditions are readily treatable, prevalence and resulting sequelae remain high in Ethiopia, especially among people with HIV/AIDS. This is possibly due to fragmentation of care, which is pronounced for ocular manifestations of the disease. The Worldwide Orphans/AIDS Healthcare Foundation (WWO/AHF) Family Health Clinic aims to provide comprehensive and continuous care to orphans, vulnerable children, and adult family members with HIV/AIDS in Addis Ababa
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