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Article History

Received: 6 March 2019

Accepted: 23 September 2019

First Online: 24 October 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical clearance was obtained from Ethical review committee of Hawassa University, College of medical and health science (Ref.No:IRB/065/10). Parents or caregivers were entitled to provide consent on the behalf of children 1-9 years old. Hence, verbal consent was obtained from parent or caregiver after the brief description had been given on benefits, objectives, procedure, and risk of the study. The verbal consent was obtained because written consent demanded a certain level of education to read and sign the consent. This was approved by ethical review committee. The reason for the eye examination and what the examination will involve was explained to parents. Confidentiality and privacy of every respondent’s information was assured by not using any identifiers of the study participants. Finally, the children with active trachoma were treated with two tube of tetracycline eye ointment.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.