Community participation eliminates yaws in Ecuador
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Community participation eliminates yaws in Ecuador.
Yaws is no longer a national and international health priority for intervention, but there is still a negative perception of the disease in the few affected communities. A survey in 1988 in the northern region of Ecuador documented a prevalence of 16.5% of clinical cases and 96.3% of serological cases. A continuous, long-term community-based surveillance programme was therefore put in place foc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine and International Health
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1360-2276,1365-3156
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01073.x