Elimination of infectious diseases from the South-East Asia Region : : keeping the promise / / edited by Poonam Khetrapal Singh.

• Superior document: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
• TeilnehmendeR: Khetrapal Singh, Poonam,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Springer,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (133 pages)

This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO’s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases by 2030. In this context, this book is of high significance to countries from the SEA region and around the globe. It helps create national strategies and action plans on infectious disease elimination and thus attaining SDG 3.3. This is an open access book.

Table of Contents

A historic paradigm shift in communicable diseases in South-East Asia, from control to elimination / Poonam Khetrapal Singh -- Thailand, elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis / Rangsima Lolekha, Usa Thisyakorn, and Mukta Sharma -- Yaws, freeing young children in India from an old scourge / Sujeet Singh, S.K. Jain, and Mohamed A. Jamsheed -- The Maldives, a long battle to banish malaria / Mohamed Hameed [and four others] -- Unburdening the poor, elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Maldives / Hasan Samir [and three others] -- Sri Lanka. long battle to eliminate malaria / Kamini Mendis and Risintha Premaratne -- Lymphatic filariasis elimination in Sri Lanka, overcoming the odds / Sandhya Dilhani Samarasekera and Razia Pendse -- Elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Thailand, a model for best practices / Suwich Thammapalo and Daniel Kertesz -- Trachoma elimination in Nepal, bringing light, preventing darkness / Mahendra P. Shrestha, Sailesh Kumar Mishra, and Jos Vandelaer -- Sri Lanka marches ahead and achieves elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis / Lilani Rajapaksa, K.A.M. Ariyaratne, and B.B. Rewari -- Leveraging health system gains towards eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and syphilis, how Maldives became the second country in WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve this feat / Ibrahim Nishan Mohamed [and three others] -- Leprosy, accelerating towards a leprosy-free world / Vijaykumar Pannikar, Cita Rosita Sigit Prakoeswa, and Erwin Cooreman.