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Clinton Global Initiative Video on Neglected Tropical Diseases

Integrated Vector Management (IVM)

CD48/19-RIMSA15

PAHO Communicable Disease Research Program (CDR)

CD48/10: Towards the Elimination of Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) in the Region of the Americas

Human Rights and Neglected Diseases

10 Facts about Neglected Tropical Diseases

Preventive Chemotherapy in Human Helminthiasis--Controlled Use of Antihelminthic Drugs: A Manual for Health Professionals and Programme Managers

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal Published by the Public Library of Science

Action Against Worms

CE142/18: Onchocerciasis: Progress Report

Disease burden and health-care clinic attendances for young children in remote Aboriginal communities of northern Australia

World Health Day 2008 to Highlight Health Effects of Climate Change

nature outlook: Neglected Diseases

Mass Deworming: A Best-Buy for Education and Health

PAHO/WHO Preparatory Meeting on Epidemiological Data Needed to Plan Elimination of Schistosomiasis in the Caribbean (St. George, Grenada, 13–14 December 2007)

Update of American Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis Control and Research: Final Report (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6–7 November 2007)

CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety

Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (New England Journal of Medicine, 357: 10, September 6, 2007)

Global Plan to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008–2015

Tackling Neglected Diseases in Latin America

Workshop on Geohelminth Control in the Countries of Central America, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic (Copán Ruinas, Honduras, 24–26 July 2007)

PAHO Regional Program on Leishmaniasis: Fighting a Neglected Tropical Disease Affecting the Poorest of the Poor

TropIKA.net: Tropical Disease Research to foster Innovation and Knowledge Application

Neglected Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Hidden Killers of Productivity and Economic Development

WHA60.25: Integrating Gender Analysis and Actions into the Work of WHO: Draft Strategy

Control of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections in the English- and French-Speaking Caribbean: Towards World Health Assembly Resolution 54.19 (Kingston, Jamaica, 15–17 May 2007)

Problems in Diagnosing Scabies, a Global Disease in Human and Animal Populations

A Turning Point 2007: Report of the Global Partners' Meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases (Geneva, Switzerland, 19-20 April 2007)

Prevention, control, and elimination of neglected diseases in the Americas: Pathways to integrated, inter-programmatic, inter-sectoral action for health and development

Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (GNNTDC)

Neglected Tropical Diseases: Preventive Chemotherapy and Transmission Control

Filariasis

The Carter Center Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program

Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA) / The Carter Center River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) Program

Geographic Distribution of Onchocerciasis in the Americas

Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA)

Onchocerciasis (TDR Fact Sheet and Research Resource Page)

Lymphatic Filariasis (WHO Fact Sheet No. 102)

Lymphatic Filariasis (TDR Fact Sheet and Research Resource Page)

Schistosomiasis (TDR Fact Sheet and Research Resource Page)

Schistosomiasis (WHO Fact Sheet No. 115)

Neglected Diseases: The Diseases of Poverty

The Burden of Neglected Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean Compared with Some Other Communicable Diseases

CD47.R18: Health of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Consensus Statement on Prevention of Disability (Consensus Development Conference on the Prevention of Disability [POD], Cebu City, Philippines, 13–16 September 2006)

Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty

Beyond Swollen Limbs, A Disease's Hidden Agony

Communicable Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO: Aims, Strategies and Lines of Action

International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

Schistomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Parasite Infections: Preliminary Estimates of the Number of Children Treated with Albendazole or Mebendazole (WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record / WER, No. 16, 2006, 81, 145–164)

A Guide to Healthy Food Markets

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Investing in Global Health: 'Best Buys' and Priorities for Action in Developing Countries

Priorities in Health

ALCUEH: Health Collaboration Program among Latin American, the Caribbean and European countries

Parasitic and Neglected Diseases: The PAHO Regional Program

Neglected Diseases: Search Page for PAHO and WHO Information

Neglected Diseases of Neglected Populations: Thinking to Reshape the Determinants of Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Worm Busters Facts and Statistics

Worm Busters! You can help children who are needlessly suffering.

PAHEF Supported Projects: Worm Busters Campaign

WHO Global Partners for Parasite Control: Worm Busters Campaign

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Americas: 6th Regional Program Managers' Meeting, 5th Regional Program Review Group Meeting (San José, Costa Rica, 25–27 October 2005)

CD46.R16: PAHO Gender Equality Policy

The Millennium Development Goals: Deworming

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination: RPRG Newsletter of the Americas

Prevention and Control of Schistosomiasis and STH: Report of a WHO Expert Committee

Training Manual on Diagnosis of Intestinal Parasites

Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Advocacy and Training Interactive Guide

Software (list from WHO Partners for Parasite Control / PPC)

Monitoring and Epidemiological Assessment of the Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis at Implemention Unit Level

New WHO Publications on Parasite Control (Selected List, July 2005)

Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis

Malaria

Deworming for Health and Development

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination: RPRG Newsletter of the Americas, Vol. 2, Issue 1

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Americas: 5th Regional Program Managers' Meeting, 4th Regional Program Review Group Meeting (Paramaribo, Suriname, 26–29 October 2004)

CD45.R3: Millennium Development Goals and Health Targets

Reducing the Burden of Preventable Diseases Among the Poor: Onchocerciasis and Filariasis

CD44.R6: Primary Health Care in the Americas: Lessons Learned over 25 Years and Future Challenges

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd edition. Vol. III Parasitoses

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination: RPRG Newsletter of the Americas, Vol. 1, Issue 2

Parasitic Diseases

WHO, List of Links on Communicable Diseases (by topic)

Framework for a Regional Program for Control of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis in the Americas (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2–6 June 2003) (DRAFT)

Manual for Indoor Residual Spraying: Application of Residual Sprays for Vector Control

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination: RPRG Newsletter of the Americas, Vol. 1, Issue 1

WHO Disease Outbreak News

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Americas: Regional Program Managers' Meeting (Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, 4-6 September, 2002)

Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Americas: 2nd Regional Program Managers' Meeting (Georgetown, Guyana, 20-22 August 2001)

WHA54.19: Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections

Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Americas: Report, First Regional Program Managers Meeting (Dominican Republic, 9-11 August 2000)

Drains & You: A Manual for Drainage Maintenance Workers

Interventions for Treating Schistosomiasis mansoni (Review)

WHA50.29: Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis as a Public Health Problem

Chagas' Disease and the Nervous System

CD35.14: Eradication/Elimination of Certain Diseases from the Region