Moncayo A
Organización Mundial de la Salud, Ginebra, Suiza.
Medicina (B Aires). 1999;59 Suppl 2:120-4.
The epidemiological and entomological data and the trends observed in the decreasing of the incidence of infection in young age groups indicate that only ninety years after the discovery of Chagas disease, the control of vectorial and transfusional transmission has reduced the incidence by 70% in the Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay). This has been accomplished thanks to the political and financial engagement of the concerned governments who have invested US$340 millions since 1991 to the present. The initiatives to interrupt transmission of Chagas in the Andean countries and the Central American countries have begun their activities in 1997 and the evolution of the control operations allows to forecast the complete interruption in these areas before the year 2010 to comply with the mandate of Resolution WHA. 52.14 of the World Health Assembly in May 1998.
流行病学和昆虫学数据以及在年轻年龄组感染发病率下降方面观察到的趋势表明，恰加斯病发现仅90年后，病媒传播和输血传播的控制已使南锥体国家（阿根廷、玻利维亚、巴西、智利、巴拉圭和乌拉圭）的发病率降低了70%。这一成果得益于相关政府的政治和财政投入，自1991年至今，这些政府已投入3.4亿美元。安第斯国家和中美洲国家中断恰加斯病传播的举措于1997年启动，控制行动的进展使人们能够预测在2010年前这些地区将完全阻断传播，以符合世界卫生大会1998年5月第WHA 52.14号决议的要求。
