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Disease Prevention and Control / Communicable Diseases / Chagas Disease

Field Photos, Guatemala:
PAHO-MSPAS-JICA Collaboration Project to Fight Chagas Disease

PAHO-MSPAS-JICA IPCA

The photos below depict the activities of the initiative launched by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS) of Guatemala as part of its collaborative agreement with PAHO and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), within the framework of the Initiative of Central American Countries to Interrupt Vectoral and Trasfusional Transmission of Chagas Disease (IPCA). Photos courtesy of Jun Nakagawa, PAHO-JICA Regional Advisor on Chagas Disease, PAHO-Honduras. Click on thumbnail images below to access them in original size (in JPG).

Signature of agreement
Agreement signed by PAHO, JICA & Ministry of Health
field team
Field team ready for work
looking for chinches
Ministry personnel conducting household search for vectors
residual spraying
Ministry personnel applying insecticides in infested household
captured vectors
Triatoma dimidiata captured in infested household
schoolchildren
Teaching schoolchildren to identify vectors
IEC materials
Producing & distributing educational materials
health promotion activities
Community health-promotion activities
working together
Working together to advance project
evaluation team
PAHO-JICA Joint Evaluation Mission
project evaluation
PAHO & JICA evaluate progress made in country

More photos:

Guatemala:
blood testing | IVM

El Salvador |

Honduras

PAHO Chagas Page