At KCCO, we believe that sharing practical knowledge is just as powerful as delivering care.
Our growing resource library supports eye care professionals, program managers, policymakers, researchers and educators across Africa with tools designed to strengthen systems, train teams and scale sustainable impact.
Whether you’re developing a national plan, launching a hospital program, or conducting training in remote areas. These resources are built to inform and empower your work.
This Maasai-language brochure educates communities about trachomatous trichiasis—a condition where eyelashes turn inward and damage the eye. It explains the causes, effects, treatment options, and encourages early surgical intervention to prevent blindness.
This Swahili brochure explains ugonjwa wa vikope (inward-turning eyelashes), its causes, symptoms, treatment through minor surgery, and the importance of early intervention to prevent blindness.
This collection presents research on the surgical management of trachomatous trichiasis, exploring outcomes, interventions, barriers to uptake, and methods to optimize prevalence estimates to support WHO’s SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination.
This document compiles key research on trachoma mapping, prevalence surveys, and elimination efforts across multiple countries, highlighting methodologies, challenges, and progress toward meeting WHO elimination thresholds, with a focus on Ghana, The Gambia, and global trichiasis burden estimates.
A detailed report on improving district-level planning for VISION 2020 in Africa, emphasizing data-driven strategies for addressing cataract, refractive error, childhood blindness, and other eye conditions through effective collaboration, service delivery, and monitoring.
This report summarizes a 2007 workshop at KCCO that focused on using evidence-based approaches for effective district-level planning and implementation of the VISION 2020 initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness in Africa.
A report on using evidence-based approaches for planning and implementing VISION 2020 eye health services at the district level in Africa, focusing on data-driven strategies for addressing blindness and improving eye care delivery.
This systematic review evaluates the practice of task-shifting trichiasis surgery from specialized eye health workers to general health workers in trachoma-endemic countries. It examines surgical outcomes, productivity, and implementation challenges. While generalists can perform surgery with comparable quality to specialists, their productivity remains low due to systemic issues like poor supervision, lack of supplies, and inadequate support. The review emphasizes the need for focused training, better oversight, and dedicated personnel to effectively reduce the burden of trachomatous trichiasis.
This review evaluates facial cleanliness and environmental (F&E) improvement interventions in trachoma control, highlighting gaps in behavior-centered strategies and recommending integration of behavior change theory to enhance sustainability and impact.
A practical guide exploring the intersection of gender and trachoma, offering strategies to promote gender equity in trachoma elimination programs through workforce inclusion, service delivery, community engagement, and behavior change.