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The mission will evaluate, from today to Thursday, whether the conditions for controlling the vector transmission of Chagas (insect contagion) are met, in the department of Presidente Hayes, in the Paraguayan Chaco, the only one in which this type of contagion had not been cut.
To this end, the international experts of PAHO will evaluate the transmission control actions undertaken by the National Service for Malaria Eradication (Senepa), the institution in charge of the fight against the disease.
They will also check the incidence index "through serological testing of children from 0 to 15 years old", with greater attention to the age group up to 5 years explained the former director of the Brazilian Chagas Center and a member of the PAHO evaluation mission, Vera Luca Correa.
In addition, they will travel to Presidente Hayes to "talk with community leaders who guide the public" on how to act against Chagas, a community work that has been the focus of the strategy of Action of the Senepa, so that the free houses of the vector, according to its general manager, Nicols Aguayo.
For Aguayo, the realization of this certificate "is a step too important to achieve in the future the elimination of Chagas", and badured that "from the technical point of view, the conditions exist for that Paraguay gets it ".
The next step to achieve this total eradication is to cut the transmission during pregnancy, for which Senepa offers rapid diagnostic tests for pregnant women and newborns "so that they are treated very quickly and do not do not develop the disease "said Aguayo.
In this sense, the head of the Chagas program, Cesia Villalba, reports that every year in Chaco, "230 cases of Chagas congnito" are diagnosed, while the prevalence among pregnant women is currently between 12% and 20% . 14%, while the frequency of transmission to their children falls between 4% and 6%.
In addition, explained that one of the main difficulties of the diagnosis of the disease is that "in 70% of cases (Chagas) is asymptomatic, and in 30% is chronic to a cardiac or digestive pathology."
Chagas disease is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan "Trypanosoma cruzi" (T. cruzi), transmitted to humans and other mammals by blood-borne insects, such as bedbugs, especially in dwellings precarious. rural and urban areas.
In 2016, the OPS certified the cut of the vector transmission of the disease in the Boquern department, so if the certification is obtained at Presidente Hayes, which should be granted in November of this year, it will be extended to all the country
Paraguay, in mid-June, obtained Malaria-free country certification, granted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and was the first country in America to to get it after Cuba in 1973. EFE
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