Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)

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	Color the chinches! Salvadorean Primary School Project to Educate Children on How to Prevent Chagas Disease Illustrated on this page is a simple tool used by elementary schools in El Salvador to teach children how to identify chinches picudas, or the specific triatomine insect Triatoma dimidiata that is the main vector transmitting the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite and hence, Chagas disease. Below is the sheet given to the pupils to color and a photo of the children engaged in the activity. This material was developed by the PAHO/JICA collaborative project with the Ministry of Health of El Salvador. dch-els-dibujo-chinches.htm

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Surveillance
Featured Surveillance Items
	El Salvador: Activities to Fight Chagas Disease This page serves as a resource with links to all online PAHO information on Chagas disease in El Salvador and current prevention and control activities taking place there: the subregional initiative, events, missions, photos, maps, etc. dch-els.htm

	Honduras: Activities to Fight Chagas Disease This page serves as a resource with links to all online PAHO information on Chagas disease in Honduras and current prevention and control activities currently being carried out there: the subregional initiative, events, missions, educational materials, photos, maps, etc. dch-hon.htm

	Guatemala: Activities to Fight Chagas Disease This page serves as a resource with links to all online PAHO information on Chagas disease in Guatemala and prevention and control activities currently being carried out there: the subregional initiative, events, missions, educational materials, photos, maps, etc. dch-gut.htm

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Country Profiles
	El Salvador: Activities to Fight Chagas Disease
	Honduras: Activities to Fight Chagas Disease
	Guatemala: Activities to Fight Chagas Disease
	Area Covered by JICA Projects in Central America
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Incidence/Mortality/Case Fatality
	The Burden of Neglected Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean Compared with Some Other Communicable Diseases
	Chagas in the Americas: Geoepidemiological Spaces for Surveillance and Control--A Series of Four Maps
Outbreaks
	WHO *Disease Outbreak News*
Materials, Toolkits and Forms
	Color the chinches! Salvadorean Primary School Project to Educate Children on How to Prevent Chagas Disease
Guidelines and Manuals
	Technical Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Chagas Disease
	Manual for Indoor Residual Spraying: Application of Residual Sprays for Vector Control (3rd ed.)
	Chagas Disease: Harmonization Model for Inter-Agency Cooperation
	Safety of Pyrethroids for Public Health Use
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Laboratories
	CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety
	CD46.R5: Progress Report on the Global Safe Blood Initiative and Plan of Action for 2005-2010
Quality Control
	CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety
Quality Assurance
	CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
	IPA: Initiative of the Andean Countries to Control Vectoral and Transfusional Transmission of Chagas Disease
	VI^th Meeting of the Andean Initiative to Control Chagas Disease (IPA) (Bogot�, Colombia, 5�6 May 2005)
	V^th Meeting of the Andean Chagas Initiative (IPA) (Lima, Peru, 6�7 May 2004)
Maps
	Distribution of Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata (Central America, 2004)
	Maps Indicating Geographical Distribution of Chagas Vectors in Latin America--Triatoma dimidiata, Rhodnius prolixus, Triatoma infestans--with Photos
	WHO Definition of Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)
	Chagas in the Americas: Geoepidemiological Spaces for Surveillance and Control--A Series of Four Maps
Health Profiles and Data
	The Burden of Neglected Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean Compared with Some Other Communicable Diseases

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Product Types (register under only one): Situation Reports, Country Profiles, Forms, Guidelines and Manuals, Health Profiles and Data, Statistical Databases, Other Databases
Keywords (no limit, or key in Product type/s in keyword field for cross-referencing): Surveillance features Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis), Annual status reports, Incidence/Mortality/Fatality, Epidemic alert and response, Incidence and disease registries, Outbreaks, Resistance surveillance, Laboratories, Epidemiological surveillance systems, Geographic information systems, Maps, Groups affected, Risk factors/behaviors, Quality control, Quality assurance, Monitoring and Evaluation

About the Regional Program

Subregional Initiatives
	Amazon: AMCHA
	Andes: IPA
	Central America: IPCA
	Southern Cone: INCOSUR

PAHO/WHO Grants
	PAHO/CDR
	WHO/TDR
	Research Reports


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