Wednesday, June 17, 2009

[EQ] Consultancy on the Social Determinants of Neglected and Other Poverty-Related Diseases

Consultancy on the Social Determinants of Neglected and Other Poverty-Related Diseases

 

Call for Expression of Interest in a
Consultancy on the Social Determinants of Neglected and Other Poverty-Related Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

Deadline for submission of applications: 10 July 2009.

 

Website: http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1508&Itemid=259&lang=en

 

This Call is an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), in the context of its Program for the Elimination of Neglected and Other Poverty-Related Diseases. PAHO/WHO Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control Area, Communicable Diseases Project


 “…The purpose of the consultancy is to analyze the social determinants of health associated with neglected infectious diseases (NIDs) (i.e. living conditions, cultural factors, etc.), as well as possible key interventions to mitigate them in order to reduce the burden of selected NIDs that can be targeted through mass drug administration (MDA)—i.e. onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, and trachoma—as well as other diseases that could be part of an integrated plan, including Chagas disease, rabies transmitted by dogs, plague, leprosy, leishmaniasis, and congenital syphilis, among others.

 

Consultoría sobre los determinantes sociales de las enfermedades desatendidas

 

Invitación a presentar expresiones de interés para una consultoría sobre los determinantes sociales de las enfermedades desatendidas y otras infecciones relacionadas con la pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe

 

Fecha límite para la presentación de solicitudes: 10 de julio de 2009

 

Website: http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1508&Itemid=259&lang=es

 

Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS/OMS) en el contexto del Programa de Eliminación de Enfermedades Desatendidas y de otras enfermedades infecciosas relacionadas con la pobreza. El Área de Vigilancia de la Salud y Prevención y Control de Enfermedades, Proyecto de Enfermedades Transmisibles de OPS/OMS

 

El propósito de la consultoría es analizar los determinantes sociales de salud relacionados con las enfermedades infecciosas desatendidas (es decir, condiciones de vida, factores culturales, etc.), así como las posibles intervenciones clave para mitigarlos dirigidas a reducir la carga de las enfermedades infecciosas desatendidas seleccionadas que pueden controlarse a través de administración masiva de medicamentos, por ejemplo, la oncocercosis, la filariasis linfática, la esquistosomiasis, las geohelmintiasis y el tracoma, y también de otras enfermedades que podrían formar parte de un plan integrado de control, incluyendo la enfermedad de Chagas, la rabia transmitida por perros, la peste, la lepra, la leishmaniasis y la sífilis congénita, entre otras.

 


Contact:

Dr. Ximena Aguilera Senior Advisor on Communicable Diseases
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
525 Twenty-Third Street NW Washington, DC, 20037-2895, USA

Phone: (+1-202) 974-3191 E-mail: aguilerx@paho.org

 

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