Guatemala: Activities to Fight Chagas Disease

Photos from Guatemala

• Missions: 2005 | 2002
• Community Action:
  - Team at Work
  - Blood-Testing
  - Integrated Vector Management (IVM)
  - Field Photos
• Victims
• At-Risk Housing
• Vectors Active in Guatemala:
  - Triatoma dimidiata
  - Rhodnius prolixus
  - Life Cycle
• Parasite:
  Trypanosoma cruzi

IPCA Subregional Initiative

IPCA Meetings in Guatemala (in Spanish)

• 1^st Annual Meeting, 1998
• Thematic Meeting on
  R. prolixus, 2003

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

Progress Reports for Chagas Disease Vector Control Project
  2000–2002   |   January–May 2001

PAHO-JICA Missions to Guatemala
  5/2005   2/2002

IEC Materials from Guatemala
(Information/Education/Communication)

• Poster: Chinche Alert (in Spanish)
• Trainers' Manual: General Knowledge, Prevention and Surveillance with Community Participation (in Spanish)

Maps

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

Activities in El Salvador | Honduras

Partner Sites

• PAHO Chagas Page
• PAHO/WHO-Guatemala
• Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS) of Guatemala
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Doctors without Borders (Médicos sin fronteras/MSF)
• Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG)
• Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC)