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Countries of the Americas promote integrated action to eliminate neglected diseases

Countries of the Americas promote integrated action to eliminate neglected diseases Washington, D.C., 15 May 2012 (PAHO/WHO) More than 100 million people in the Americas suffer from neglected infectious diseases, which tend to affect poor populations. Experts from member countries of the Pan American Health Organization... Read full article...

Countries of the Americas promote integrated action to eliminate neglected diseases

Journal Articles: NID

PAHO: To remove the NTDs we must step up not only our Health sector strategies but our Poverty-Reduction Strategies

Factsheet: Lymphatic filariasis

Lymphatic Filariasis

Prevalence and intensity of infection of Soil-transmitted Helminths in Latin America and the Caribbean Countries. Mapping at second administrative level 2000-2010

Directora de la OPS: es urgente integrar y potenciar acciones, recursos y alianzas para eliminar las Enfermedades Desatendidas en las Américas

Notas descriptivas sobre las enfermedades desatendidas

Neglected Diseases List

Notas descriptivas: Geohelmintiasis

Tackling and Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) with Common Tools but Innovative Applications of Knowledge is a Moral Imperative

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Some Neglected Diseases Could be Eliminated in the Americas, PAHO Paper Says

Reducir la pobreza es clave para hacer frente a las enfermedades desatendidas

PAHO Briefing on Haiti Earthquake Response - 3 February 2010

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Health Ministers Set Ambitious Agenda for the Americas

Virtual Technical Meeting: Elimination of Neglected and Other Poverty-Related Diseases (June 2009)

Resolutions, Technical Guides, and Plans Related to the Elimination of Neglected Diseases ...

Lymphatic Filariasis Archives

Epidemiological Profiles of Neglected Diseases and Other Infections Related to Poverty in LAC

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Respuesta contra enfermedades 'olvidadas' e infecciosas logra estímulo financiero

OPS co-auspicia llamado de lucha contra enfermedades infecciosas desatendidas

Dr. Mirta Roses Inaugural Address as Director of the Pan American Health Organization

Dr. Mirta Roses Inaugural Address as Director of the Pan American Health Organization

An ACHIEVABLE DREAM: Eliminating some Diseases from the Region

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