Mosquitoes, flies, bugs and other vectors transmit viruses, parasites and bacteria that infect millions of people globally. They cause many diseases, including malaria, dengue, leishmaniases, Chagas disease and Zika virus disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a new strategy to... strengthen vector control worldwide. Member States welcomed this integrated approach at the 2017 World Health Assembly and adopted a resolution to support the strategy.
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Chapter 5: A Community Guide to Environmental Health
Nini watoto wanapaswa kujua kuhusu kichocho?
SHUKRANI: Maelezo haya yamewezekana kupitia msaada wa fedha kutoka kwa Merck KGaA, Ujerumani. katika mwaka 2007, Merck KGaA ilingia katika ushirikiano na Shirika la Afya Duniani (WHO) kupambana na kichocho kwa watoto wa shule katika bara la Afrika.Me...rck ina changia vidonge milioni 200 vyaa Cesol 600 zenye kiambatano imara cha praziquantel. Merk itaendeleza juhudi yake hadi hapo maradhi yatakapotokomezwa kabisa Africa.
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O que as crianças devem saber sobre a esquistossomose - Banda desenhada
AGRADECIMENTO: Este documento foi produzido com o apoio financeiro da Merck Alemanha. Em 2007, a Merck estabeleceu uma parceria com a Organização Mundial da Saúde para combater a esquistossomose entre os estudantes no con...tinente africano. Inicialmente, a Merck fará uma doação de 250 milhões de comprimidos de Cesol 600, que contém o princípio ativo praziquantel. A Merck pretende dar continuidade a esse compromisso para que essa enfermidade seja eliminada na África.
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Treating children infected with intestinal worms is one of the simplest and most cost–effective ways to improve their health.
The recommendations are intended for a wide audience, including policy-makers and their expert advisers as well as technical and programme staff at government institution...s and organizations involved in the design, implementation and expansion of programmes to control soil-transmitted helminth infections.
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L'eau potable et les services d'assainissement et d'hygiène (WASH) sont essentiels à la prévention des 17 maladies tropicales négligées (MTN) pour lesquelles une intensification de la lutte ou l'élimination sont prévues à l'horizon 2020.
La fourniture d’eau potable et de services d’...assainissement et d’hygiène est l’une des cinq interventions clés inscrite dans la feuille de route mondiale contre les MTN. Pourtant, à ce jour, la composante WASH de la stratégie n’a reçu que peu d’attention et le potentiel lié à la mise en commun des efforts WASH et MTN reste largement inexploité.
Des efforts ciblés sur la composante WASH sont nécessaires de toute urgence pour atteindre les cibles de la feuille de route mondiale contre les MTN.
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PLoS ONE 13(8): e0202499. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202499
This was a school-based cross-sectional study conducted in 2015 among 305 school children aged 7–16 years from two primary schools located in Ilemela and Magu Districts, north-western Tanzania. Single stool and urine samples w...ere collected from each participant and examined for the presence of Schistosoma mansoni eggs, parasite antigen, and parasite DNA using KK thick smears, POC-CCA tests, and real-time PCR, respectively.
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Progress towards achieving the Roadmap targets for control and elimination of the Neglected Tropical Diseases
Information on Chikungunya Fever
Progress towards achieving the Roadmap targets for control and elimination of the Neglected Tropical Diseases.
داء البلهارسيات هو مرض طفيلي حاد ومزمن تسبّبه الديدان المثقوبة الدموية (المثقوبات) من جنس البلهارسية. وتشير التقديرات إلى أن 251.4 مليون شخص على الأقل كانوا بحاجة إلى ...لعلاج الوقائي من داء البلهارسيات في عام 2021. ومن شأن العلاج الوقائي، الذي ينبغي تكراره على مدى عدة سنوات، أن يحد من المراضة ويمنعها. وقد أُبلغ عن سريان المرض في 78 بلداً. ومع ذلك، فإن العلاج الكيميائي الوقائي لداء البلهارسيات الذي يُستهدف فيه الأشخاص والمجتمعات المحلية بالعلاج على نطاق واسع، لا يلزم إلا في 51 بلداً موطوناً يشهد مستويات سريان المرض المتوسطة أو العالية.
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Шистосомоз является острой и хронической паразитарной болезнью, вызываемой кровяными сосальщиками (трематодными червями) из рода Schistosoma. В 2021 г. количество нуждаю...ихся в профилактическом лечении шистосомоза оценивалось на уровне не менее 251,4 млн человек. Профилактическое лечение, которое необходимо повторять через несколько лет, снижает и предотвращает заболеваемость шистосомозом. Передача шистосомоза регистрируется в 78 странах. Однако профилактическая химиотерапия в рамках широкомасштабного лечения шистосомоза среди людей и общин требуется только в 51 эндемичной стране с умеренными и высокими показателями передачи инвазии.
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January 30, 2020 is the first-ever World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (World NTD Day), a day when we celebrate the achievements made towards control of the world’s NTDs, yet recognize the daunting challenges we face in the control and elimination of these conditions.
Neglected tropical diseases tend to cluster in the same poor populations, and to make progress with their control, they will have to be dealt with in an integrated manner. Peptide microarrays may be a solution to tese problems, where diagnosis for co-infection can be detected simultaneously using th...e one tool.
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While virtually unheard of in developed countries, NTDs are a group of medically diverse parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases common in tropical and subtropical areas. NTDs affect more than 1.5 billion people annually, causing death, blindness, disfigurement, chroni...c pain, cognitive impairment and other long-term disabilities that create obstacles to education, employment, economic growth and overall
development. When measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), the NTD burden is greater than malaria or tuberculosis.
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The Pharmaceutical Forum of the Americas (PFA) has previously published guidelines and organised campaigns for community pharmacists on the prevention, detection and control of arbovirus infections in 2018 with a grant from the FIP Foundation for Pharmacy Education and Research. Building on that exp...ertise, FIP joined efforts with the PFA and is now publishing its first-ever handbook to support pharmacists in the
area of vector-borne diseases. As the integration of the regional forums in FIP advances, such collaborative projects are tangible results of an increasingly regionally informed and regionally targeted work by FIP.
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MOBILISIERUNG INLÄNDISCHER ÖFFENTLICHER RESSOURCEN FÜR GESUNDHEIT