[PDF] Top 20 Status report on malaria programs in the Americas (Based on 2002 data)

... launch in 1998, the RBM Initiative has been a catalyst for malaria control activities in the ...both the national and regional ...cooperation in each of the ... 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

... For the sixth consecutive year I have the honor to report to the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization, Regional Committee of the World Health Organizatio[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

... 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

... The phase of total coverage will start 1 January 1957, with the spraying of about three million houses; however, on 7 September 1956 a gigantic pilot campaign, which will last [r] ... See full document

... Total Blood Slides Examined and Number of Positive Slides by Level of Malaria Transmission, 1996 ..... Of these, only Ecuador and Mexico are implementing control progra[r] ... See full document

... Americas 1958 and 1961 by Status of Malaria Eradication ... Personnel employed in Spraying Operations in Malaria Eradication.. Programs in the Americas, 31 December 1958 and 31 December [r] ... See full document

... In Venezuela, 94.4 per cent of the population of the originally malarious area are p r esently in maintenance phase and the rest in attack phase. In the maintenance area 104 autochtho- n[r] ... See full document

... This measure was adopted as the attack method in an area in Nicaragua; incidence was reduced during 1968 from its 1967 levels, but the reduction was less than tha[r] ... See full document

... Between 1956-1959, all countries in the Americas where malaria was a problem ini- tiated their malaria eradication programs, using residual house spraying with insecticides as the princi[r] ... See full document

... examined the report on the present status of leprosy programs in the Region of the Americas (Document CD26/17), submitted by the Director ... See full document

... In late 1972 the eradication surveillance service discovered another focus of reinfestation in the same city (near the border of El Salvador) in which a reinfestation ha[r] ... See full document

... The Special Commission for the Assessment of the Smallpox Eradication Program in South America analized and discussed in detail the information and documentation present[r] ... 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

... This shows that the problem has not been solved and that the existence of extensive enzootic yellow fever areas in the Hemisphere will continue to repeatedly expose the c[r] ... See full document

... The 72,650 malaria cases in these six regions represent 72.4_ of the total recorded in the entire country during 1989. These cases were detected in 91 municipios of the regions, among wh[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

... 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