Reprinted from Australian Family Physician Vol. 39, No. 10, october 2010
Article published in: Journal of Intensive Care (2015) 3:16
About six to seven million people worldwide, mostly in Latin America, are estimated to be infected with
Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease (WHO data from 2021). Chagas disease is
found mainly in endemic areas of 21 Latin American countries.
In northern Myanmar, nearly 100,000 people continue to live in displacement camps in Kachin and northern Shan States. Most were first displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army in 2011, and many have been displaced multiple times, including in recent months. ...Approaching seven years of displacement, and despite ongoing and often increasing needs, displaced persons in northern Myanmar face decreasing aid and protection services. Over the past two years, the Government of Myanmar has dramatically increased restrictions on delivery of aid to this displaced population at the same time that the overall amount of aid provided by international donors has decreased.
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This is a part of a series of lesson plans created by Peace Corps volunteers in Senegal about vaccine preventable diseases
Background book on Management of the Child with a Serious Infection or Severe Malnutrition
Tuberculosis cases, TB deaths