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This website aims to provide access to all related resources on key HIV/AIDS issues, including policy and advocacy documents, technical guidelines, country and regional resources, recommended readings and useful web links.
- Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis
- HIV and STI Surveillance and Monitoring
- Prevention and Care of Key Populations
- Treatment and Care
- Cross-cutting HIV topics
Last Updated on Thursday, 14 February 2013 11:16
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A year ago, Cleotilde Acosta's four children were having problems sleeping and eating. “Before they received the deparasitation treatment, they would wake up frightened in the middle of the night,” recalls this mother in Santa María del Carbón, an indigenous Pech community in the municipality of San Esteban, department of Olancho, Honduras. “Now their stomachs are better, they have healthy appetites, and the ones in school are learning to read,” she adds with a grateful smile.
Specific Disease Information
| Congenital Syphilis | Leprosy | Onchocerciasis |
| Chagas Disease | Lymphatic Filariasis | Plague |
| Fasciolasis | Malaria | Schistosomiasis |
| Rabies | Neonatal Tetanus | Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis |
| Leishmaniasis | Trachoma |
:: Mandates: NID
:: Publications and Documents
- PAHO.Epidemiological Profiles for Neglected Diseases and Other Infections Related to Poverty in Latin America. 2009
- Neglected Tropical Diseases: Preventive Chemotherapy and Transmission Control
- A Call to Action: Addressing Soil-transmitted Helminths in Latin America & the Caribbean
- Control and Elimination of Five Neglected Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010 – 2015
- General Information of Neglected Infectious Diseases - October 2011 (In Spanish)
- Preventive Chemotherapy in Human Helminthiasis--Controlled Use of Antihelminthic Drugs: A Manual for Health Professionals and Programme Managers
- Global Plan to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008-2015
:: Regional Program and Initiatives
- Guía para el desarrollo de Planes Integrados de acción para la prevención, control y eliminación de las Enfermedades Infecciosas Desatendidas (In Spanish)
- A Call to Action: Addressing Soil-transmitted Helminths in Latin America & the Caribbean
- Trust Fund: Prevention, Control & Elimination of Neglected and Other Infectious Diseases in LAC
:: Statistics and Maps
- Prevalence and intensity of infection of Soil-transmitted Helminths in Latin America and the Caribbean Countries
- Neglected Infectious Diseases Brochure, 2010
:: Meeting Reports: NID
:: Neglected Infectious Diseases Video List
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Health Surveillance and Diseases Prevention and Control Area |
First WHO Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases
Control and Elimination of Five Neglected Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010 – 2015
A Call to Action: Addressing Soil-transmitted Helminths in Latin America & the Caribbean
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