Chagas Her name is Mayerlín. She is seven years old and she should not be one of the 39,000 people in the world who will contract Chagas disease this year Her name is Mayerlín . She is seven years old and she should not be one of the 39,000 people in the world who will contract Chagas disease...
Chagas ,Malaria ,Ebola ,Zika [This article has been written by Adelaida Sarukhan, scientific writer at ISGlobal, with the collaboration of Eduard Martín-Borregón, and it has been published in Spanish in The Huffington Post ] There is no doubt: in an increasingly interdependent world, health has become a global...
Chagas From her seat in the stands at Barcelona Football Club’s Mini Stadium, Lisbeth Salazar followed the movements of one player attentively. Sitting in the shade beside her partner Carlos, she had come to answer the call to play a match against Chagas disease . Owing to health problems,...
Chagas The night before her first visit, Irene could not sleep: “What will they find? Do I have Chagas disease? Or HIV/AIDS? There are so many possibilities. And what about my daughters, my brothers, my sisters?" 'Spread the Word in the Fight Against Chagas' is an initiative to inform...
Chagas On the occasion of the World Chagas Day, ISGlobal has published a special digital report on the main obstacles and a series of solutions to break the silence on Chagas disease. We invite you to read the report and spread the voice to break the silence...
Chagas My name is Eva. I am from Bolivia and a nurse by profession. I left my country some years ago with the dream of doing graduate studies and using my training to contribute to the Bolivian health system. Chagas disease was causing a certain amount of fear among the Bolivians living here...
Chagas To mark this important day, we want to reflect on why, in 2015, 99% of patients with Chagas disease still lack access to diagnosis and treatment Today, 14 April, International Chagas Day , is an appropriate day to talk about Noelia, a little girl who was born ten years ago in the Chaco...
Chagas ,Health Equity A diferencia de la malaria o el dengue, el mal de Chagas es una enfermedad poco conocida. Sin embargo, se trata de una enfermedad mortal y es, además, una de las principales causas que impide el desarrollo rural y económico de amplias zonas rurales en Latinoamérica. El Chagas es una...
Chagas ,#ObjectHealth One study estimates the annual global cost of Chagas disease at over 7 billion US dollars Chagas disease , caused by infection with the Trypanosoma cruzi ( T.cruzi ) parasite, originated in Latin America. If left untreated, the disease becomes chronic. An estimated 10 million people are...
Communications ,Chagas Twenty years ago, even doctors in Spain knew nothing about Chagas, a disease caused by infection with the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite. It was not so much a forgotten disease as one that had never existed. Endemic in parts of Latin America, Chagas disease was basically...
