The Pan American Health Organization
Promoting Health in the Americas

 Safe Hospitals

Health Surveillance & Disease Prevention & Control — Communicable Diseases: 
Acute Respiratory Infections - Anthrax - Antimicrobial Resistance - Campylobacter - Chagas -
Cholera - Dengue - Diarrheal/Enteric Diseases - Disease Outbreak News -
Emerging/Reemerging Diseases - Filariasis - Hantavirus - InfluenzaAvian |  Pandemic |  Seasonal - International Health Regulations - Leishmaniasis - Leprosy - Malaria -
Neglected Diseases - Parasitic Diseases - Rabies - Research - Salmonella - Shigella - Smallpox -
Tuberculosis - West Nile Virus  - Yellow Fever  -
Health Analysis & Statistics - Chronic Diseases - Veterinary Public Health

Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)
- Surveillance
- Prevention and Control
- PAHO Activities
- Other PAHO Materials
- General Info/Links

What's New

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

... more items.

PAHO Activities

PAHO Programs

-

IPCA: Initiative of the Countries of Central America for Control of Vector-Borne and Transfusional Transmission and Medical Care for Chagas Disease

-

PAHO Communicable Disease Research Program (CDR)

-

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

-

PAHO Regional Program on Chagas Disease

... more PAHO Programs.

Research Projects

-

International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

Community-Based Projects

-

Our community is chinche- and Chagas-free: United against chinches!

-

Capacity Development under Program-Based Approaches: LENPA Spring Forum 2005: Synthesis Report (Washington, DC, 25–27 April 2005)

-

Field Photos: 2002 Mission to Guatemala to Fight Chagas Disease

-

Field Photos: PAHO-JICA Team at Work in Guatemala

... more Community-Based Projects.

Conferences/Meetings Documents

-

Workshop to Design a Comprehensive Strategy for Primary Health Care (PHC) for Controlling Chagas Disease in the Chaco Region: Elaboration of a Protocol and Intervention Guidelines in Three Pilot Areas (La Paz, Bolivia, 14–16 May 2008)

-

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

-

Report of the Regional Consultation on Information, Education and Communication (IEC) on Congenital Chagas Disease (CLAP, Montevideo, 17-18 May 2007)

-

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

... more Conferences/Meetings Documents.

PAHO Events

-

Virtual Medical Training Course in Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Chagas Disease

Other Events

-

Funding to Attend Workshop on Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health: Vector-Borne Diseases (Dengue and American Trypanosomiasis) and Health Risks due to Exposure to Environmental Toxins

Courses and Seminars

-

Funding to Attend Workshop on Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health: Vector-Borne Diseases (Dengue and American Trypanosomiasis) and Health Risks due to Exposure to Environmental Toxins

-

Virtual Medical Training Course in Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Chagas Disease

Product Types and/or Keywords:
Product Types (register under only one):
Conferences/Meetings Documents, PAHO Events, Other Events
Keywords (no limit, or key in Product type/s in keyword field for cross-referencing): Activities features Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis), PAHO programs, Built Environments, Research projects, Operations research, Community-based projects, Workplans, Training materials, Courses and seminars

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
research priorities
 

Contact the Program