Maintaining the Momentum for Chagas disease in the Context of COVID-19

Full Recorded Event and Individual Stakeholders' Presentations and Speeches

23 marzo 2021

Geneva and Virtual

“It was the best of times; It was the worst of times”.
Charles Dickens
 
We started the key decade to end the neglect. On March 23rd, 2021, a great gathering of  main stakeholders of the Chagas disease community shared their views, analysis and commitments to maintaining the "Momentum" for the disease in the context of COVID-19 and beyond. This event, co-hosted by Chagas Coalition and the World Heart Federation (member of the Coalition), with the support of the NTD department of WHO, was the first global meeting this year 2021 to measure the effects and progress on Chagas disease from different contexts and perspectives.

Representatives of ministries of health, policymakers, institutions and organizations, WHO partners, associations of people affected by Chagas disease evaluated the impact of the pandemics in its daily work but also they share their contributions to scale up the progress towards the elimination of the disease as a public health problem in 2030, following the SDGs and the new WHO NTD roadmap.

We think that it is worthy to share the full recorded event as well as the individual presentations and speeches of the speakers for easy and direct access to them.

 

Watch the entire event or the individual interventions by clicking on the images below.
You can also check all the participants in our AGENDA.
 

I. MEETING OPENING, INTRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF OBJECTIVES

        Fco. Javier Sancho Más - Chagas Coalition                               Fausto Pinto - World Heart Federation                       Pedro Albajar-Vinas - WHO Department of Control of NTD
 
 
 
II. OVERVIEW ON RECENT IMPACTFUL ACHIEVEMENTS; ADAPTATION OF WORK IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND NEW INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS
 
                Manuel Segovia - Regional Unit of Tropical Medicine of Murcia                                           Maira Carolina Guzmán - ASAPECHA                                                    Veruska Maia da Costa - Ministry of Health, Brazil
 
                               Marcelo Abril - Fundación Mundo Sano                                                  Wilson Oliveira Jr. - Coordinator of Casa de Chagas, Brazil                                   Mauricio Vera Soto - Ministry of Health, Colombia
 
                       Blanca Lizett Chinchilla - Ministry of Health, Guatemala                                                       Rachel Marcus - LASOCHA                                                                             Ulrich Dietmar Madeja - Bayer
 
José Maurício Cysne - UNITAID
 
 
 
III. SPECIAL REMARKS AND OPEN DISCUSSION AND CLOSING OF THE MEETING
 
                                                                    Nisia Lima - Fiocruz                                                                                  Sergio Sosa-Estani - DNDi                                         Silvia Gold - Mundo Sano. Uniting to Combat NTds. Chagas Coalition Board
 
                                                     Hayato Urabe - GHIT                                                                          Mónica Quijano - Novartis Global Health                                                             Norman Beatty - University of Florida
 
Irene Losada
Irene Losada - Chagas Initiative. ISGlobal
 
 

Co-organizers: #Chagas Coalition, World Heart Federation and #WHO Department of Control of neglected tropical diseases.

Participants: Representatives of Ministries of Health, policymakers, institutions and organizations WHO partners and stakeholders, associations of people affected by Chagas disease.