New Technical Report Series on the Control of Leishmaniasis
15 March 10 | Geneva
A new edition of a WHO book - 'Technical Report Series on the Control of Leishmaniasis' - will soon be available. The current edition dates back to the early 1990s.
During its meeting between 22-26 March 2010 at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the Expert Committee on Leishmaniasis approved a new version of the book which features new therapy recommendations, the use of rapid diagnostic tests, details of Leishmania-HIV co-infection and social and environmental risk factors.
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… this is very important because in the last 20 years there [have been] important progress in research .. now we have the tools … now we have the concept … and with the Expert Committee, what we have now is the political umbrella plus the Resolution of the World Health Assembly [to combat] leishmaniasis, … mainly diagnostics and treatment … "
The Expert Committee on Leishmaniasis which met for the first time in 20 years also recommended measures to:
- Create conditions to enable WHO to take a leading role in providing technical assistance for the maintenance and expansion of Leishmaniasis control programmes;
- Encourage endemic countries to adopt a policy of Integrated Vector Management and make maximum use of insecticides in vector control;
- Improve access and reduce costs of diagnostics, drugs, insecticide and bed-nets;
- Encourage research to enable countries adopt policies based on drug-combinations
- Designate leishmaniasis as a disease that should be notified in all endemic countries and integrate its surveillance into multi-disease surveillance systems.
See the current Technical Report Series (TRS 793) on the Control of Leishmaniasis
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