MEDBOX | Country category Latin America and the Carribbean

	Chagas disease in the Chilean altiplane. Epidemiological, parasitological, and clinical aspects GHDx Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (2023) C2 Open external link (0) Add to my MEDBOX Website last accessed on 31.03.2023 Tags: Chagas, Chile, trypanosoma cruzi, tripanosomiasis americana, NTD, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), website, Source: https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/chaga
	Chao Chagas Chile - Website Chiao Chagas Chile (2023) C2 Open external link (0) Add to my MEDBOX Website last accessed on 31.03.2023 Tags: Chagas, website, Chile, NTD, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), trypanosoma cruzi, tripanosomiasis americana, Source: https://www.chaochagaschile.cl/
	Providing information, education and communication for key people involved in Chagas disease control World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC Open external link (4) Add to my MEDBOX The Information, education and communication (IEC) activities, with the development of contextualized activities for various actors and scenarios about preventative measures and surveillance tools, are essential to increase awareness, reduce biomedical and psychosocial barriers to accessing diagnosis and care; keep the maximum number of actors involved; and reach the affected population, including family, friends and society in general Tags: Chagas, IEC Material, website, WHO, Source: https://www.who.int/activities/providing
	Parasites - American Trypanosomiasis (also known as Chagas Disease) Centers for disease control and prevention CDC (2019) C_CDC Open external link (5) Add to my MEDBOX In areas of Mexico, Central America, and South America, where the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite is present in triatomine bugs, improved housing and spraying insecticide inside housing to eliminate the bugs has significantly decreased the spread of Chagas disease. Screening of blood donations for Chagas is another important public health tool to help prevent spreading the disease through blood transfusions. Early detection and treatment of new cases, including mother-to-baby (congenital) cases, will also help reduce the burden of disease Tags: Chagas, Prevention, infection control, Latin America, Source: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/pre
	Chagas disease factsheet Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative DNDi - Latin America (2019) CC Open external link (3) Add to my MEDBOX Chagas is a parasitic disease that affects over 6 million people in the world. As the disease typically remains asymptomatic for years, new cases often go unnoticed and unreported, and most people with the disease are unaware of their condition. Less than 10% of people affected are diagnosed and the vast majority do not receive the treatment they need. If not treated, Chagas may cause irreversible, life-threatening damage to the heart and other vital organs Tags: Chagas, parasites, drugs, neglected tropical diseases, Latin America, Source: https://dndi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020
	Describing nearly two decades of Chagas disease in Germany and the lessons learned: a retrospective study on screening, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi infection from 2000 – 2 Guggenbühl Noller, J.M., Froeschl, G., Eisermann, P. et al. BMC Infectious Diseases (2020) CC View PDF(1) Download (1) Add to my MEDBOX The highly complex and largely neglected Chagas disease (CD) has become a global health problem due to population movements between Latin America and non-endemic countries, as well as non-vectorial transmission routes. Data on CD testing and treatment from routine patient care in Germany of almost two decades was collected and analysed Tags: Chagas, global challange, Population movements, Latin America, non-endemic countries, testing, treatment, Germany, Study, Screening, detection, trypanosoma cruzi, Treatment, Source: https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/c
	What is Leishmaniasis? Cafasso, J. Healthline (2018) CC Open external link (4) Add to my MEDBOX Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by the Leishmania parasite. This parasite typically lives in infected sand flies. You can contract leishmaniasis from a bite of an infected sand fly. The sand flies that carry the parasite typically reside in tropical and subtropical environments. Fatal epidemics have occurred in areas of Asia, East Africa, and South America. Affected regions are often remote and unstable, with limited resources for treating this disease. Doctors Without Borders calls leishmaniasis one of the most dangerous neglected tropical diseases. The organization also states this disease is second only to malaria in parasitic causes of death Tags: Leishmaniasis, visceral leishmaniasis (VL), cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), diagnosis, treatment, complications, Prevention, vector, NTD, Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/leishm
	Social Appropriation of Knowledge and its contributions to the prevention of cutaneous leishmaniasis in rural contexts Paipilla, K., Castro-Arroyave, D., Grajales,L. et al. BMJ Innovations (2022) CC Open external link (5) Add to my MEDBOX Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a neglected infectious endemic disease that is transmitted through the bite of a vector insect (sandfly) of the Lutzomyia genus,typical of rural geographical territories, and causes disfiguring skin ulcers and disabilities. It is estimated that CL affects between 600 000 and 1 000 000 people a year around the world, mainly in the America s, the Mediterranean basin, the Middle East and Central Asia. Eighteen of the 21 countries that make up the Latin American (LA) region are considered endemic areas for this neglected tropical disease. Colombia is one of the countries that reports the majority of global cases with 6161 in 2020 and has the second highest number of cases in the Americas, after Brazil Tags: Leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), visceral leishmaniasis (VL), vector, socioeconomic factors, prevention and control, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Source: https://innovations.bmj.com/content/bmji
	Exploring the cultural effects of gender on perceptions of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic literature review Wenning, B., Price, H., Nuwangi, H. et al. Global Health Research and Policy (2022) CC Open external link (5) Add to my MEDBOX More than one million people each year become infected by parasites that cause the disease cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). This disease manifests as one or more skin lesions or ulcers that are slow to heal with variable response rates to drug treatments. Thus far, little attention has been paid to how the cultural effects of gender shape perceptions and experiences of CL. This review aims to bring together and analyse existing studies which use qualitative data to explore these differences. These studies offered insights into our specific research questions Tags: Leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), cultural influences, gender, perception, experience, systematic review, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Health seeking behaviour, Source: https://ghrp.biomedcentral.com/counter/p
	Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Urgent need to develop more effective and user-friendly point-of-care diagnostic tools DNDi /redeLEISH (2022) CC Open external link (5) Add to my MEDBOX Leishmaniasis is a complex vector-borne disease involving in its transmission several species of protozoan parasites called Leishmania, a wide variety of animal reservoirs and phlebotomine sandflies vectors. Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is the most common form of the disease, and its clinical manifestations vary from few papules to multiple ulcers affecting the skin but also the mucous membranes, leaving permanent scars and serious disability. It is a disfiguring and stigmatizing disease that often has a devastating psychosocial and economic impact on the affected resources limited communities Tags: Leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), diagnosis and treatment, Latin America, Source: https://dndi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022

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