Interventions to bring comprehensive care to people with Chagas disease: Experiences in Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia.
Access to medicine
Chagas disease
Neglected tropical diseases
Trypanosoma cruzi
Journal
Acta tropica
ISSN: 1873-6254
Titre abrégé: Acta Trop
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0370374
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2020
Mar 2020
Historique:
received:
14
03
2019
revised:
14
11
2019
accepted:
03
12
2019
pubmed:
8
12
2019
medline:
28
8
2020
entrez:
8
12
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Chagas disease (CD) affects over six million people and is a leading cause of heart failure in the Americas. Few are able to access diagnosis and treatment for CD, resulting in a missed opportunity to prevent morbimortality. Integration of testing and treatment with the primary healthcare level is a key step in ensuring affected people receive timely antitrypansomal therapy, which increasing evidence shows can prevent chronic complications from the disease and halt congenital transmission. This article describes three collaborative projects focused on increasing access to testing and treatment for CD through primary healthcare facilities in Bolivia, Argentina, and Colombia.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31811865
pii: S0001-706X(19)30315-8
doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.105290
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
105290Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.