El Salvador: Activities to Fight Chagas Disease

Photos from El Salvador

• Field Photos
• Elaboración del Plan Quinquenal
• Victims
• At-Risk Housing
• Vectors Active in Honduras:
  - Triatoma dimidiata
  - Rhodnius prolixus
  - Life Cycle
• Parasite:
  Trypanosoma cruzi

IPCA Subregional Initiative

IPCA Meetings in El Salvador (in Spanish)

• 3^rd Annual Meeting, 2000
• Thematic Meeting on Triatoma dimidiata, 2002

PAHO-MSPAS-JICA Project
(contains a summary of the situation in Honduras)

PAHO sent an official mission to El Salvador in August 2002.

Preparations for the Five-Year Plan

Maps

• Area Covered by JICA Projects in Central America
• Distribution of Rhodnius prolixus & Triatoma dimidiata (Central America)
• Geographical Distribution of Triatomines (LAC)
• Geoepidemiological Spaces

IEC Materiales
(Information/education/communication):

• Comic book for children:
  Pedrito y la enfermedad de Chagas

Activities in Guatemala | Honduras

Partner Sites

• PAHO Chagas Page
• PAHO-El Salvador
• Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS), El Salvador
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)