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The 2024 meeting will focus on global equity and strengthening community engagement in NTDs.
01 October 2024 - 03 October 2024
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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The 15th Annual Neglected Tropical Disease NGO (NNN) Conference is taking place from Tuesday 1st to Thursday 3rd October 2024 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The theme for the NNN Annual Conference 2024 is "Collaboration for Change : Foster Global Equity and Strengthening Community Engagement in NTDs". The theme reflects NNN's commitment to cross sectoral collaborations and partnerships centering endemic voices in the fight against NTDs. It stands on the pillars of the WHO NTD Roadmap and also forms the basis of our sub-themes.
"With over 90 members worldwide, the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network (NNN) is a forum for partners working together to improve health for the world's poorest populations and build a brighter future for all people".
Chagas Coalition holds its Annual Meeting on May 7, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
07 May 2024 - 07 May 2024
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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In Chagas Coalition we invite you to our Annual Meeting 2024, to be held in Buenos Aires (Argentina), on May 7th, prior to the meeting of the DNDi Chagas Clinical Reseach Platform, which will take place on May 8 and 9. As usual, we organize our meeting alonside events by our partners from both sides of the Atlantic. You can attend either in person or online, so we hope to see you, and so together we renew our energies to face the challenges ahead of us. Register now through the simple form set below. The event will be live, with english translation, and will take place in the morning, so check the agenda for more details.
Our Annual Meeting is held a few weeks after World Chagas Disease Day 2024, which is celebrated every April 14 to raise awareness about this disease, considered neglected because it has little attention on the public health agenda. It was first celebrated on April 14, 2020, following approval and endorsement by the World Health Assembly at WHO in May 2019. This year, the theme focus on "early diagnosis, treatment and follow-up", to raise awareness among patients, their families and health professionals about the need for an early diagnosis and lifelong follow-up for the people affected by this neglected tropical disease. This call has been official recently, in the slogan set by the World Health Organization (WHO) for this year's campaign: “Tackling Chagas disease: Detect early and care for life”.
Chagas Coalition has promoted this April 14 through a video made from the heart of this year's campaign, through the voice and participation of stakeholders from the Chagas community and a number of other social sectors worldwide.
Events in the month of World Chagas Disease Day 2024
Events and other initiatives to bring awareness on the visibility of Chagas disease and break the silence that surrounds this neglected disease.
14 April 2023 - 14 April 2024
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Events in the month of World Chagas Disease Day 2024
(This list of events will be updated periodically)
El Chagas Existe y Podemos Eliminarlo.
Webinar to raise awareness about this neglected tropical disease and address its forms of transmission and the ultimate goal of its elimination as a public health problem. This event is co-organized by thethe Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Chagas Global Coalition.
The Ohio University organizes this event to help spread awareness and promote early treatment and prevention efforts against Chagas disease through art and paints.
Date: April 10th ⏰ 10 - 13 h
Venue: Atrium Heritage Hall
Language: English
The Voices of Chagas Disease.
"Listen and learn from those living with Chagas and impacted by the kissing bug. A celebration for making a diference for this neglected tropical disease afecting millions around the world". Janeice Smith, President and founder of The National Kissing Bug Alliance hosts this event with DNDi just a few days before the Wold Chagas Disease Day, celebrated every year on Abril 14th. More information and a full list of the co-hosts participating in this webinar, in the official poster.
World Chagas Day: Necessity for early diagnosis and lifelong follow-up
The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) will be hosting a webinar in honour of World Chagas Day. This webinar will feature a panel discussion from leading experts in the field of Chagas, Chaired by Dr María-Jesús Pinazo Delgado, physician, senior specialist in Internal Medicine and Head of Chagas at Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative - DNDi.
Congenital Chagas Disease: where are the knowledge and research gaps?
The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases organizes this online event with the participation of Dr Marina Gold (Anthropologist & CEO Mundo Sano Foundation) and Elise Rapp (Nurse, Biologist, PhD-student in Social Sciences University of Lausanne and HESAV, HES-SO, Switzerland).
Dia Mundial da doença de Chagas: 115 anos da descoberta
After 115 years since the discovy o Chagas disease, Brazil has made evident progress through the implementation of national policies aimed at prevention and control of the disease.
Date: April 12
Venue: Câmara Municipal de São Luís de Montes Belos/GO (Brazil)
Photography exhibition on the story of the efforts made by the Government of Paraguay and also the communities affected by Chagas disease, against the silence around it, the parasitic disease that kills the most in Latin America.
Date: April 12 to 30
Venue: Plaza Infante Rivarola, Asunción (Paraguay)
Webinar organized by the Departamento de Doenças Transmissíveis (DEDT) and the Secretaria de Vigiláncia em Saúde e Ambiente (SVSA), Governo Federal do Brasil, on the clinical trajectory of Chagas disease and the path towards a comprehensive and continuous diagnosis and care.
Date: April 16th
Lugar: (Virtual)
REGISTRATION(access only available 15 min before the event starts)
Día Mundial Chagas de la Enfermedad de Chagas: Que el Chagas no te dañe el corazón
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection, through their national development plan 2022-2026, "Colombia world power of life" organizes this conversation “to talk about comprehensive health care for those affected by Chagas disease, with stakeholders from the health system, the academia and those from international cooperation.”
Venue: Ministry of Heath building / Virtual (Online)
Language: Spanish
5° Conversatorio Virtual de Comunicación y Chagas
The group ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Chagas? invites you to participate in this event, on Thursday, April 18, to continue thinking, talking and discussing collectively everything about Chagas. In this new edition the speakers will share experiences and reflections on "Art and creativity for Children".
Venue: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Language: English
II Editatón de Wikipedia: Editemos Chagas
Initiative of several synchronous and collaborative meetings in order to improve articles related to Chagas disease in Wikipedia. Promoted by the group ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Chagas? and organized by the Wikimedistas del Museo de La Plata (Argentina), with participation from the CUI and the Chagas Program of the OMS.
Estreno del documental: "Chagas, orquesta invisible"
Documentary that addresses the silence, misinformation and prejudices related to Chagas disease and the people affected by this Neglected Tropical Disease in endemic areas and Argentina in particular, with more than 1.5 million people affected and millions exposed.
Venue: Sala 3 - Cine Gaumont, Av. Rivadavia 1635 (BuenosAires, Argentina)
Language: Spanish
#IWearTheTShirt of the World Chagas Disease Day
With a simple gesture, you can support the visibility of the fight against Chagas disease. Wear the World Chagas Day T-shirt and upload it to your social networks with the hashtags #IWearTheTShirt of the World Chagas Disease Day or #MePongoLaCamiseta of the World Chagas Disease Day. For further information, click HERE o go to BeatChagas.info
Chagas Coalition and PAHO organize this virtual discussion on the occasion of World Chagas Disease Day 2024.
10 April 2024 - 10 April 2024
(Virtual)
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World Chagas Disease Day is celebrated every April 14th, and in 2024 Chagas Coalition and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) organize a virtual conversation, to be held four days before, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024.
We invite you to participate in this event. We will be meeting people from different sectors, whose contributions and views will seek to enrich and exchange the perceptions and concepts of this public health problem, beyond the biomedical approach. Representatives from the world of cinema, anthropology, journalism and medicine, will join us and help us broaden and expand awareness about this disease to detect it early and give the comprehensive care that affected people need.
Share on your socials with the hashtag #DíaMundialChagas & #WorldChagasDay
Events in the month of World Chagas Disease Day 2023
03 April 2023
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Events in the month of World Chagas Disease Day 2023
(This list of events will be updated periodically)
Por una infancia libre de Chagas Congénito. Cómo lograr interrumpir la transmisión maternoinfantil
Webinar for communicators and journalists on how to interrupt mother-to-child transmission of this neglected tropical disease. Participants: Chagas Global Coalition, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), DNDi, ISGlobal, Fundación Mundo Sano, CEADES and Cuida Chagas.
World Chagas Disease Day: Integrating Cardiac Services Into Primary Care
Webinar organized by WHF together with the Argentine Society of Cardiology on the eve of World Chagas Day. It explores how we can provide appropriate training to primary care workers to improve cardiomyopathy management, expand access to basic diagnostic tests, and work to improve referral pathways to essential cardiology services.
Arquitectura y salud: Una alianza para el control de la enfermedad de Chagas
Webinar in commemoration of World Chagas Disease Day, organized by the Center for Research for Health in Latin America (CISeAL), in collaboration with the Vice Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador, the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), the Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute at Ohio University (ITDIOU), and also with our coordinator in the Chagas Global Coalition.
4° Conversatorio de Comunicación y Chagas: Escenarios de comunicación digital
This World Chagas Disease Day, join the conversation with the Chagas National Program, the Ministry of Health of Argentina, the National Institute of Parasitology "Dr. Mario Fatala Chaben" and the group ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Chagas?. You are invited on Friday, April 14 to continue thinking, talking and discussing collectively everything about Chagas.
More information: vectores.iec@gmail.com / contacto@hablamosdechagas.org.ar
Date: April 14th ⏰ 9:30 (Argentina)
Venue: (Virtual)
Language: Spanish
III Webinar de Chagas en Japón por el Día Mundial del Chagas: Avances y desafíos para una atención integral
Chagas en Japón organizes this webinar, with the participation of Mrs. Kobashikawa, President of the Asociación Nipona de Afectados de Chagas (ANACHA), Dr. Ebisawa, specialist in infectious diseases at Kobe Hospital, Dr. Yoshioka, researcher at Nagasaki University and Dr. Moriya, a primary care physician.
Date:April 15th ⏰ 20 h (Japan) (13 h Spain / 7 h Bolivia)
Venue: (Virtual)
Language: Spanish, English y Portuguese
Chagas Disease in the United States
Free session on the topic: Voices of Chagas Disease: Patients and Physicians Discuss the Barriers to Care in the U.S. Join this UT Health San Antonio & ECHO (extension for community healthcare outomes) learning event.
Asociación Chagas Con Ciencia y Conocimiento A.C. invites you to this webinar, for professionals at the primary care, as well as health personnel involved in the subject, regarding the prevention, promotion, diagnosis, treatment, management and follow-up of the patient, under the theme "It is time to integrate Chagas disease care to the primary health network”.
This event, co-organized by the Brazilian Embassy, San Diego State University, the University of California-San Diego, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), will highlight advances and remaining challenges for Chagas disease and the many people it impacts throughout the world.
I Reunião Anual dos Grupos Técnicos em Doença de Chagas do Brasil
An event for the exchange of experiences, addressing relevant topics such as interoperability and comparability in time and space for the early detection and monitoring of Chagas disease, or a Single Health System as a solution to the lack of priority in the fight against triatomines.
Commemorative event of the WCDD with a round table on "Primary Health Care - fundamental element for the care of people with Chagas disease" and the launching of the book: Brazil of the Future: A Tomorrow without Chagas. Organized by the Technical Group on Chagas Disease of the Brazilian Health Surveillance Secretariat (SVSA), with hybrid attendance online or in person at the Auditorium of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Ciclo Carlos Chagas de Palestras: ‘O novo normal pós-pandemia: impactos na #DoençaDeChagas’
The Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz), streams this event in which several experts will discuss on how the health emergency caused by SARS-CoV-2 affected the care received by Chagas patients. They will also talk about new therapies to deal with the infection and the interaction between the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite and its host.
Event organized by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), free upon registration, and focused on the care of people living with T. cruzi infection. #JornadasChagas2023, a workshop for health, social, laboratory and public health personnel, in order to join efforts, ideas, knowledge and experience to advance in the control and elimination of Chagas disease.
Information / Contact to: tallerchagas@isglobal.org
Date: April 11-12th
Venue: Barcelona & Virtual
Language: Spanish
Ending the neglect of Chagas disease in the UK
Symposium on the situation of this neglected disease in the United Kingdom, with the participation of experts who will update the challenges ahead to eliminate this public health problem and innovate impact actions to improve health care. It is organized by the UK Chagas Hub and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) community, with the collaboration of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Initiative of several synchronous and collaborative meetings in order to improve articles related to Chagas disease in Wikipedia. Promoted by the group ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Chagas? and organized by the Wikimedistas del Museo de La Plata (Argentina).
As a start point to the World Chagas Disease Day, Mundo Sano Foundation, with the International Federation of Associations of People Affected by Chagas Disease (FINDECHAGAS) and the association ACHACOVA, conducts this space where they analyze the situation of this neglected disease from a local approach to the global impact, focusing on the affected people in their community.
With a simple gesture, you can support the visibility of the fight against Chagas disease. Wear the World Chagas Day T-shirt and upload it to your social networks with the hashtags #IWearTheTShirt of the World Chagas Disease Day or #MePongoLaCamiseta of the World Chagas Disease Day. For further information, click HERE o go to BeatChagas.info
