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| Uruguay is the first country in Latin America free of the insect that transmits Chagas disease |
The Pan American Health Organization certified Uruguay as the only country in Latin America free of Triatoma infestans as a public health problem. The insect that transmits Chagas disease, known as the kissing bug, lives in mud huts, especially in rural areas and affects 40,000 people in the country. The President Mujica advocated for the public to be alert to continue in this status and relapse. More on: Uruguay is the first country in Latin America free of the insect that transmits Chagas disease (in Spanish)
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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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- 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
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- 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
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- Prevalence and intensity of infection of Soil-transmitted Helminths in Latin America and the Caribbean Countries
- Neglected Infectious Diseases Brochure, 2010
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First WHO Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases
16th Meeting of the WHO Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma by 2020
Conclusions and Recommendations - GET2020 (In Spanish)
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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