Elimination of infectious diseases from the South-East Asia Region keeping the promise

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 S...

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Other Authors: Singh, Poonam Khetrapal (Editor), Khetrapal Singh, Poonam, editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore Springer Nature 2021
Singapore : [2021]
Series:SpringerBriefs in Public Health
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009683514406719
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Summary: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. This is an open access book.
Physical Description:1 online resource (133 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789811655661