World Chagas Disease Day 2022

This year, in this PAHO event several experts will discuss about the overall situation with Chagas Disease and how it is transmitted.

Online
19 April 2022

 

The Chagas Control and Prevention Program, in The Neglected, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases Unit, hosted by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), commemorates the World Chagas Disease Day (14-A) with an online meeting to be held on 19 Abril 2022. Chagas Coalition will co-host the event along with some of our partners.
DATE: 19 April 2022
TIME: 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. (EST)
TYPE: Virtual
(App Zoom)
Passcode: 547027 / Webinar ID: 820 4297 0962
(download from Drive)
10:00 – 10:10 a.m.: Introduction and welcome. Dr. Luis Gerardo Castellanos, Director of the Neglected, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases Unit, PAHO, and Mr. Javier Sancho, Coordinator of the Chagas Coalition
10:10 – 10:15 a.m.: Chagas Disease from a global perspective. Dr. Pedro Albajar, Programa Global de Chagas, Neglected Tropical Diseases department, WHO
10.15 – 10:25 a.m.: La Enfermedad de Chagas; dimensión y complejidad actual. MSc. Héctor Coto, Consultor del Programa de Entomología en Salud Pública, OPS. Video: Chagas la enfermedad silenciosa
10:25 – 10:30 a.m.: Chagas Disease and the control of its transmission from vectors. Dr. Roberto Chuit, Director of the Instituto de Epidemiologia, Academia Nacional de Medicina, Argentina. Video: Transmisión del Chagas desde las zonas rurales hacia las zonas urbanas
10:30 – 10:35 a.m.: Mother-to-child transmission of the Trypanosoma cruzi and the importance of the ETMI Plus. Dr. Jaime Altcheh, Director of the Servicio Parasitología – Chagas, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez. Video: Transmisión congénita de la enfermedad de Chagas
10:35 – 10:40 a.m.: Transfusional transmission and from organ transplants of the Trypanosoma cruzi, a relevant challenge. Dr. Mauricio Beltrán, Regional Adviser Servicios de Sangre y Trasplantes, Medicamentos y Tecnologías Sanitarias, Sistemas y Servicios de Salud, PAHO. Video: Enfermedad de Chagas: transfusión de sangre
10:40 – 10:45 a.m.: Digestive transmission of the Trypanosoma cruzi by ingesting contaminated food. Dr. Mauricio Vera, Grupo de Enfermedades Endemo-epidémicas, Subdirección de Enfermedades Transmisibles, Ministerio de Salud, Colombia. Video ¿Cómo se transmite la enfermedad de Chagas?
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.: Access to innovation, alliances and new projects to stop the congenital transmission. Sra. Carmen Pérez, Senior Manager Strategy, UNITAID; Dra. María Jesús Pinazo, Director of the Chagas program, Iniciativa Medicamentos para Enfermedades Olvidadas (DNDi) and Lic. Marcelo Abril, Executive Director of the Mundo Sano Foundation 
11:00 – 11:10 a.m.: Time for Q & A and other suggestions
11:10 – 11:20 a.m.: Final Reflections. Elvira Idalia Hernández Cuevas, President of the FINDECHAGAS association 
11:20 – 11:30 a.m.: Closure. Dr. Luis Gerardo Castellanos, Director of the Neglected, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases Unit, PAHO, and Mr. Javier Sancho, Coordinator of the Chagas Coalition

 

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