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...
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...
Perfil – Campaign aiming to have not a single baby born with Chagas launched in Argentina
In Argentina, at least one and a half million people are infected with Chagas, a potentially life threatening disease caused by a parasite known as Trypanosoma cruzi. There are several contagion paths: the most frequent are conenose (kissing) bugs and blood...
Infobae – Celebrities joined a solidarity campaign against Chagas disease
The "Not A Single Baby With Chagas" campaign, led by Mundo Sano Foundation, aims to the objective that by 2030 all babies born with the disease may receive treatment and be cured, and also, that all childbearing age females may have access to diagnosis and treatment....
Clarín – Every 6 hours a baby is born with Chagas in our country; campaign launched to reverse this fact
One and a half million Argentine people have Chagas. Every year, 1,500 babies are born with the disease in our nation. One every 6 hours. Seeking to reduce this figure, a global campaign is launched to shed light on the issue. The...
El País – Ana will not inherit Chagas disease
9,000 children are born with this neglected disease. With the resources now at hand, mother-to-child transmission can be eliminated This is the goal of a campaign supported by the WHO and Unicef "All babies inherit something from their moms. Florencia will have her...
La Razón Digital – Silvia Gold: «In Spain there is a good plan to address the problem of Chagas disease»
Interview to Silvia Gold Chagas is one of the great neglected diseases nowadays. However, her foundation, Mundo Sano, has placed it at the core of their work. How did you find your professional vocation in this foundation? - Mundo Sano is a foundation born in 1993. It...
