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Elimination of Infectious Diseases from the South-East Asia Region [electronic resource] : Keeping the Promise / edited by Poonam Khetrapal Singh.

Contributor(s): Series: SpringerBriefs in Public HealthPublisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021Edition: 1st ed. 2021Description: XV, 126 p. 31 illus., 28 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789811655661
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 616 23
LOC classification:
  • RC1-1245
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: A historic paradigm shift in communicable diseases in South-East Asia: from control to elimination -- Thailand: Elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission -- Yaws: freeing young children in India from an old scourge -- Maldives: a long battle to banish malaria -- Unburdening the poor: elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Maldives -- Sri Lanka: long battle to eliminate malaria -- Lymphatic filariasis elimination in Sri Lanka: overcoming the odds -- Elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Thailand: a model for best practices -- Trachoma elimination in Nepal: bringing light, preventing darkness -- South-East Asia Region marches ahead on elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis: Sri Lanka becomes the third country in the SE Asia Region to be validated -- 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 -- Leprosy: accelerating towards a leprosy-free world.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: 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.
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E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Lancaster NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan

Introduction: A historic paradigm shift in communicable diseases in South-East Asia: from control to elimination -- Thailand: Elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission -- Yaws: freeing young children in India from an old scourge -- Maldives: a long battle to banish malaria -- Unburdening the poor: elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Maldives -- Sri Lanka: long battle to eliminate malaria -- Lymphatic filariasis elimination in Sri Lanka: overcoming the odds -- Elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Thailand: a model for best practices -- Trachoma elimination in Nepal: bringing light, preventing darkness -- South-East Asia Region marches ahead on elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis: Sri Lanka becomes the third country in the SE Asia Region to be validated -- 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 -- Leprosy: accelerating towards a leprosy-free world.

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.