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Springer Elimination Of Infectious Diseases From The South East Asia Region Keeping The Promise (Pb 2021) by Singh P.K.
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. 1 Introduction: A historic paradigm shift in communicable diseases in South-East Asia: from control to eliminationPoonam Khetrapal Singh 2 Thailand: Elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmissionRangsima Lolekha, Usa Thisyakorn, Mukta Sharma 3 Yaws: freeing young children in India from an old scourgeSujeet Singh, S.K. Jain, Mohamed A. Jamsheed 4 Maldives: a long battle to banish malariaMohamed Hameed, Hussain Habeeb, Zakiyya Hassan, Maimoona Aboobakuru, Arvind Mathur 5 Unburdening the poor: elimination of lymphatic filariasis in MaldivesHassan Samir, Nishan Mohamed, Sana Saleem, Tjandra Yoga Aditama 6 Sri Lanka: long battle to eliminate malariaKamini Mendis, Risintha Gayan Premaratne 7 Lymphatic filariasis elimination in Sri Lanka: overcoming the oddsSandhya Dilhani Samarasekera, Razia Pendse 8 Elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Thailand: a model for best practicesSuwich Thammapalo, Daniel Kertesz 9 Trachoma elimination in Nepal: bringing light, preventing darknessMahendra Shrestha, Sailesh Kumar Mishra, Jos Vandelaer 10 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 validatedLilani Rajapaksa, K A M Ariyaratne, BB Rewari 11 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 featIbrahim Nishan Mohamed, Abdul Hameed, Abdulla Muaaz Adam, Shushil Dev Pant 12 Leprosy: accelerating towards a leprosy-free worldAuthors: Vijaykumar Pannikar, Cita Rosita Sigit Prakoeswa, Erwin Ame Willy D. Cooreman