[PDF] Top 20 Malaria control in the Americas : Editorial

... The Inter-American Symposium on Malaria Research, sponsored jointly by the Pan American Health Organiza- tion and the Government of El Salvador, was held in San S[r] ... See full document

... to the Member Governments that, owing to the urgency of the malaria eradication program, they assign to the national malaria services the necessary rank and authority to ... See full document

... that the Governments, in their programs of economic development for rural areas, take into account the problem of the dissemination of malaria, and adopt the necessary measures ... See full document

... Malaria in the Americas, as a general health problem, became worse in 1986 than it had been previously, as dem- onstrated by an increase in the annual parasite incidence[r] ... See full document

... The first National Meeting on the Teaching and Prac- tice of Epidemiology in Venezuela was an outcome of interest on the part of the Venezuelan Ministry of Health and Soc[r] ... See full document

... The Director will consult with Governments in the Americas, particularly withk the Government of the United Statesiof America which has contributed so gener- ously to the PAHO S[r] ... See full document

... Preventive measures to be taken in- clude surveillance and disinsection (as just described) together with source reduction efforts. These source reduction activities sho[r] ... See full document

... Industrial workers as a group will continue to loom large in future mass radiog- raphy plans; however, a program is already under way, through the cooperative effo[r] ... See full document

... to the Government of the United States of America for its generous and timely contribution to the PAHO Special Malaria Fund in 1963, and to express the hope that the ... See full document

... risk of malaria in the Region, Table 1 shows an increase in the malaria morbidity rates, on the basis of total population of the Americas as well as the population inh[r] ... See full document

... information and a social framework in health matters so that people can assume. greater responsibility for their own health[r] ... See full document

... distinguished representatives from the countries of the Americas, the United Nations Development Program, the Economic Commission for Latin America, the United Nations [r] ... See full document

... put into effect in the developed and the developing countries may be attributed to a number of factors: in both instances, resistance on the part of specialized[r] ... See full document

... The experiments with alternative insecticides to attack doubly-resistant species continued and expanded. Malathion spraying continued in Nicaragua and was initiated in the problem area o[r] ... See full document

... The increase in the over-all total is made up of increases in a number of programs -in Jamaica which was in the final year of its consolidation phase; in Hondu[r] ... See full document

... In one problem area of Honduras with very high DDT resistance, where more than 2,000 cases of P. It was centered on Pochutla in the state of Oaxaca, and embraced [r] ... See full document

... It can be observed that while the areas and population claimed or registered as having malaria eradication increased, there was a reduction in areas under attack [r] ... See full document

... the programs where all or part of a country has only recently begun eradication work (for example~ Cuba and Haiti) the malaria services are profiting from earlier[r] ... See full document

... Recent observations in Central America indicate that systematic and regular DDT cover- age has reduced the number of malaria cases even in areas where susceptibili[r] ... See full document

... Tables: I Status of the Malaria Eradication Program in the Americas, 1959 5 II Area and Population of Countries and Other Political Units Where Mat-ria is not Known to Have Occurr[r] ... See full document