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Sandra Murillo
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E-mail: sandra.murillo@msf.org
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Michelle French
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Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
Office: (646) 616-8681
Mobile: (646) 552-4600
E-mail: mfrench@dndi.org
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SUCRE, BOLIVIA. CHAGAS. In Bolivia, nearly 3.7 million people are at risk of contracting Chagas disease and about 1.8 million people are already living with it. According to estimates, there could be 30% of affected people in Tarija while 60% could be threatened by it. Chagas disease poses a serious social and public heath problem in many Latin American countries, where 18 million people are already infected and 100 million are at risk of suffering from the disease. Chagas kills approximately 43,000 people in the region. Chagas is a silent killer disease. The affected people do not know they are infected until they are attained by heart or digestive disorders in the already chronic phase of the pathology, when it is already too. And it is also a silenced disease lacking the will of those who should and could be looking for a way to solve a problem affecting and killing many people in the American continent. Currently, MSF is implementing a Chagas Disease Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment Project in the Entre RÌos Province, Tarija, and on the outskirts of Sucre town, Chuquisaca. Here we followed an MSF team from the moment they started visiting the different households in the town in search of potentially affected children until they later tested them for Chagas.
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The infectious disease called 'Chagas' causes 15,000 deaths each year worldwide and is one of the main concerns of public health in Bolivia which is the country with the highest prevalence of that disease. In the outskirts of Cochabamba town MSF is working in several health centres giving assistance to patients up to 50 years old. MSF is also promoting the integration of the Chagas diagnose and the consequent treatment into the local primary health attention network. MSF is promoting the inclusion of adults and patients in initial clinical phase within the Chagas treatment. This is a step forward in the fight against the illness since just up a few years ago it was thought that the treatment was only effective on the very young children. |
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