Ibero-American countries will control transmission of congenital Chagas disease in twenty four jurisdictions
The actions will reach 1,256,700 women of childbearing age and 87,800 new-borns from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Paraguay. Buenos Aires, April 2023- The member states of the Ibero-American Initiative on Congenital Chagas “Not a Single Baby with Chagas...
Heads of State and Government approved an Ibero-American initiative to eliminate Congenital Chagas disease
The initiative "Not a single baby with Chagas: the path towards new generations free of Chagas disease" has the objective of contributing to the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of this disease. Chagas disease currently affects 8 million people worldwide,...
Why Chagas disease would be no longer a world public health concern 9 years from now
It is a goal that the World Health Organization has set for a disease that spread from Latin America to the world. The organization will aim at bringing more attention to the disease in primary health care for early diagnosis, increasing screening of pregnant women...
Chagas: a growing silent disease with worrying data in Argentina
After more than one century of its discovery, Chagas disease is still an endemic suffering in the region. We spoke with the biologist Diego Weinberg, member of Fundación Mundo Sano, an organization devoted to improve the reality of people affected by neglected...
Mundo Sano received two international awards
The campaign “Not a single baby with Chagas disease” received the GOLDStevie International Awards, category:Corporate Social Responsibility. This award, given by The International Business Awards, was created in 2002 to recognize the contribution and achievements of...
First Chagas World Day
Chagas: Together we can make this neglected disease visible After 111 years since the first human diagnosis of Chagas disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) establishes April 14 as the first official World Day to remember the challenges faced by people affected...
Introducing the Not A Single Baby With Chagas Disease project in Spain
On March 5 at the SEGIB (Ibero American General Secretariat) in Spain, Mundo Sano introduced the "Not a Single Baby With Chagas Disease" project, which is committed to bring visibility to this very unfair illness, so that all babies born to mothers with...
El País- Silvia Gold, a heroine against Chagas
If superheroes use their powers to save the world from fearful enemies, Silvia Gold (Buenos Aires, 1948) uses hers to give visibility to neglected diseases, those suffered by 1.6 billion people far away from Spain -they are limited to poorer countries, save for the...
La Nación – Expectations to eliminate congenital Chagas over a decade
Every hour a baby is born with Chagas somewhere in the world, adding to some 9,000 per year. In Argentina, the country with the largest number of people infected by Trypanosoma cruzi, the number is around 1.400 per year or close to 4 per day. One every 6 hours. These...