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PAHO Communicable Disease Research Program (CDR)

CD48/13 - Integrated Vector Management: A Comprehensive Response to Vector-borne Diseases

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Prevention and Control

Featured Prevention and Control Items

Manual on Visceral Leishmaniasis Control
This manual is designed to provide a usable summary of the common practicalities of dealing with VL. To use the manual, simply turn to the section of interest. This page offers the full-text e-book in PDF, divided into chapters for easy reference.
leishmaniasis-manual.htm

PAHO Resolutions and Regional Mandates

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CD48/13 - Integrated Vector Management: A Comprehensive Response to Vector-borne Diseases

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

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

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CD45.R3: Millennium Development Goals and Health Targets

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WHO Resolutions and Global Mandates; Policy Documents

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Global Plan to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008–2015

Global Strategies

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Global Plan to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008–2015

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

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Global Insecticide Use for Vector-Borne Disease Control (2nd ed.)

Disease Management Guidelines

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Neglected Tropical Diseases: Innovative and Intensified Disease Management

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Manual on Visceral Leishmaniasis Control

Best Practices

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Public Health Pesticide Management Practices by WHO Member States: Report of a Survey, 2003–2004

Quality of Care

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

Reports

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

Population Groups

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

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CD45.R3: Millennium Development Goals and Health Targets

Vector Control

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Safety of Pyrethroids for Public Health Use

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Global Insecticide Use for Vector-Borne Disease Control (2nd ed.)

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Public Health Pesticide Management Practices by WHO Member States: Report of a Survey, 2003–2004

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Drains & You: A Manual for Drainage Maintenance Workers

Environmental Health

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Drains & You: A Manual for Drainage Maintenance Workers

Social Communication (including Health Promotion)

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Drains & You: A Manual for Drainage Maintenance Workers

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research priorities
Research Reports

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PAHO Resources

- Neglected Diseases
- Parasitic Diseases
 

WHO Resources

- Leishmaniasis
- Tropical Disease Research
- TDR Program
- TDR/Leishmaniasis
- Disease info
 

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