Elimination of infectious diseases from the South-East Asia Region : : keeping the promise /

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

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 S...

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

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