Improving access to Chagas disease diagnosis and etiologic treatment in remote rural communities of the Argentine Chaco through strengthened primary health care and broad social participation.

CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE: Our results demonstrate that diagnosis and treatment of T. cruzi infection in remote, impoverished rural areas can be effectively addressed through strengthened primary healthcare attention and broad social participation with adequate external support. This strategy secured high treatment coverage and adherence; effectively managed ADRs, and provided early evidence of positive therapeutic responses.
PMID: 28192425 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Rural Remote Health - February 12, 2017 Category: Rural Health Authors: Sartor P, Colaianni I, Cardinal MV, Bua J, Freilij H, Gürtler RE Tags: PLoS Negl Trop Dis Source Type: research