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.

Guyana and Suriname have announced they will carry out new studies to confirm whether anti-malarial treatments are losing their effectiveness in their populations, as suggested by preliminary data collected by the two countries.

This workshop will aim to promote country to intensify integrated efforts for controlling Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases infections, and specially to promote the implementation of integrated deworming actions within preexistent health platforms in the Region of the Americas, as part of the goals for the control and elimination of BNeglected Infectious Diseases established by countries in PAHO DIrecting Council Resolution CD49.R19 of 2009 and the WHO RoadMap on NTD of 2012.