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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.
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PAHO Activities

Featured Activity Items

IPCA: Initiative of the Countries of Central America for Control of Vector-Borne and Transfusional Transmission and Medical Care for Chagas Disease
This information sheet describes the activities of the subregional initiative to fight Chagas Disease in Central America, where PAHO and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) collaborate with the country health authorities. It contains links to proceedings from meetings, project facts, maps, IEC materials, photos, etc.
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INCOSUR-Chagas: Southern Cone Initiative to Control and Eliminate Chagas Disease
Created in 1991 by the Ministers of Health of Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, with its Technical Secretariat in PAHO, INCOSUR has made significant progress in combatting Chagas disease. This page tells about INCOSUR and offers access to INCOSUR documentation: reports, maps, directories, guides, etc.
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PAHO/MSF Regional Consultation on the Organization and Structure of Health Care for the Sick or Infected by Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas Disease) (Montevideo, Uruguay, 13–14 October 2005)
The objectives of this meeting were to define the scope and structure of omedical care; develop alternative and optional care models; outline the care provided to Chagas patients; establish aspects of concern in the areas of pediatric, mother-child, and transfusion care, etc.; define diagnostic needs and scope; establish both the scope and the facilities that patients should have within the health-care systems; define the total panorama of patient availability and access to etiological treatment; plan concepts and frameworks on the cost, impact, and effectiveness of developing a component for Chagas morbidity and care; establish the needs for operational research and for management.
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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

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

Proceedings from Conferences and Meetings

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)

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