by da Rocha Siriano L, Marchiol A, Pereira Certo M, Cubides J-C, Forsyth C, Augusto de Sousa F. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2020, 5:92. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020092.
Summary: The lack of public health measures aimed at the epidemiological surveillance of chronic Chagas cases constitutes a significant barrier for patients to access appropriate diagnosis, management, and follow-up, and hampers the planning of necessary activities within health systems. The authors present the design and implementation process for a policy for compulsory notification of chronic Chagas disease in the Brazilian state of Goiás. This notification policy allows authorities to determine the real magnitude of Chagas disease in the population, so that an appropriate public health response can be mounted to meet the needs of affected people, thereby ending the epidemiological silence of Chagas disease.
