Regional Stories
Anita Barbosa believes she has been cursed. For the past four years, the elderly indigenous woman from Alto Rio Negro, deep in the Brazilian Amazon, has suggered from a severe case of tungiasis, a parasitic infestation caused by penetration of the female Tunga penetrans or Tunga trimamillata flea into the skin. The parasite causes painful,…
PAHO trains 2,700 community health workers and supports scaling up of laboratory diagnosis
Dr. Ana Elena Chevez, Regional Immunization Advisor for polio at PAHO, shares an important message for a new generation of women public health leaders.
This article was originally authored and published by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) as a part of a series of stories of women who have contributed to global polio…
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Destination: Elimination
Health Topic: Tuberculosis
