Summary Report
Accessed: 19.10.2019
Specific Issues and a Model of Care
Accessed; 08.10.2019
Recognition, Assessment and Treatment
National Clinical Guideline Number 159
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Módulo 12
Adolescentes y Adultos de Jóvenes
Julio del 2018
A Training Curriculum for Providers
11 august 2022, updated version
Yaws is a disfiguring non-venereal disease caused by infection with the spirochaete. Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue which is closely related to the causative agent of syphilis and those of the other endemic treponematoses, bejel and pinta. The disease is endemic in certain areas of the World... Health Organization (WHO) African, South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions. Of the neglected tropical diseases identified for elimination and eradication, yaws is one of two diseases targeted for eradication. In 1949, the Second World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA2.36, which addresses yaws, bejel and pinta as major public health problems that need attention.
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