Prévalence de la cécité et des affections oculaires dans la région centrale du Togo,

Abstract

The blindness represents an economic weight, a social problem and of public health. To Togo, the size of the problem is currently known pain. The objective of the present survey is to appreciate the prevalence of the blindness and the one of the ocular affections in the Central Region. It is about a descriptive transverse survey in farming environment that has been driven in 31 villages selected according to the technique said of systematic pull (method of the steps) among 161 inclusive villages. The households have been chosen by the same technique. In every household, all people have been examined. The size of the sample was estimated to 5 535 according to the formula of Schwartz. On 5 758 investigated, the prevalence of the blindness was of 1% about and the cataract represented the first reason (58%). The other recovered affections oculars were dominated by the conjunctivitis (15.27%), pterygions (4.15%) and ametropies (3.66%). The cataract stays the first reason of blindness in the Central Region and close to 70% of the blinding affections recovered are either curable either avoidable. A project of struggle against the blindness to well coordinated communal basis would contribute to reduce drastic way the blindness in the Central Region.

Keywords : Prévalence, blindness, cataract, ocular affections, Central Region, Togo

J. Rech. Sci. Univ. Lomé (Togo), 2012, Série D, 14(1) : 111-117