LEADER 04422nam 2200625 450 001 9910558491703321 005 20231110233935.0 010 $a981-16-5566-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6944400 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6944400 035 $a(CKB)21459773300041 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92343 035 $a(PPN)262169274 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921459773300041 100 $a20221113d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aElimination of infectious diseases from the South-East Asia Region $ekeeping the promise /$fedited by Poonam Khetrapal Singh 210 $aSingapore$cSpringer Nature$d2021 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (133 pages) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Public Health 311 08$aPrint version: Singh, Poonam Khetrapal Elimination of Infectious Diseases from the South-East Asia Region Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2022 9789811655654 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aA historic paradigm shift in communicable diseases in South-East Asia, from control to elimination / Poonam Khetrapal Singh -- Thailand, elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis / Rangsima Lolekha, Usa Thisyakorn, and Mukta Sharma -- Yaws, freeing young children in India from an old scourge / Sujeet Singh, S.K. Jain, and Mohamed A. Jamsheed -- The Maldives, a long battle to banish malaria / Mohamed Hameed [and four others] -- Unburdening the poor, elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Maldives / Hasan Samir [and three others] -- Sri Lanka. long battle to eliminate malaria / Kamini Mendis and Risintha Premaratne -- Lymphatic filariasis elimination in Sri Lanka, overcoming the odds / Sandhya Dilhani Samarasekera and Razia Pendse -- Elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Thailand, a model for best practices / Suwich Thammapalo and Daniel Kertesz -- Trachoma elimination in Nepal, bringing light, preventing darkness / Mahendra P. Shrestha, Sailesh Kumar Mishra, and Jos Vandelaer -- Sri Lanka marches ahead and achieves elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis / Lilani Rajapaksa, K.A.M. Ariyaratne, and B.B. Rewari -- 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 feat / Ibrahim Nishan Mohamed [and three others] -- Leprosy, accelerating towards a leprosy-free world / Vijaykumar Pannikar, Cita Rosita Sigit Prakoeswa, and Erwin Cooreman. 330 $aThis book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO?s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases by 2030. In this context, this book is of high significance to countries from the SEA region and around the globe. It helps create national strategies and action plans on infectious disease elimination and thus attaining SDG 3.3. This is an open access book. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Public Health 606 $aDiseases 606 $aMalalties infeccioses$2thub 607 $aSud-est asiàtic$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 610 $ainfectious diseases in South East Asia 610 $alymphatic filariasis 610 $acommunicable diseases 610 $aneonatal tetanus 610 $aelimination of Yaws 610 $aelimination of Malaria 610 $apolio-free regions 610 $aUN Sustainable Development Goals 615 0$aDiseases. 615 7$aMalalties infeccioses 676 $a381 700 $aSingh$b Poonam Khetrapal$4edt$01439532 702 $aKhetrapal Singh$b Poonam 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910558491703321 996 $aElimination of infectious diseases from the South-East Asia Region$93601756 997 $aUNINA