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b. Office of the Assistant Director Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control Communicable Diseases Communicable Diseases
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The Communicable Disease Project (HSD/CD), part of the Technical Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control (HSD), is the group inside PAHO assigned to the area of infectious disease; surveillance, prevention, and control. The focus and activities of the project—mission, aims, strategies, and lines of action—are summarized in this fact sheet. :: Programs
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:: Malaria Champions of the Americas 2013
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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.
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