Yaws: Neglected and Abandoned? Time to Re-emerged

Erda Avriyanti, Pati Aji Achdiat

2018

Abstract

Yaws, a disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue infection, is a neglected tropical disease. Until now, yaws is still one of the public health problems in South East Asia, even though it had been forgotten before. But, recently it has re-emerged once again. Yaws becomes the aim of the mass- treatment eradication of World Health Organization (WHO) by 2020 through the mass-treatment program. The main target of the success of this campaign is a good knowledge of the disease epidemiology. We undertook a review of the historical trends and new information from endemic countries, with a point of view to assessing the state of knowledge about yaws. The plague of yaws now exists in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. About 12 countries establish as endemic countries, one of them is Indonesia that located in South East Asia region. Between 2008 and 2012 more than 300,000 new cases into the WHO. Based on Ministry of Health Regulation Republic of Indonesia No. 8 in 2017 on eradication of yaws, it is necessary to administer continuous, effective, and efficient program. Several dilemmas of yaws are low levels of reporting, potential misdiagnosis, and limited documentation on the prevalence of asymptomatic infections. The current data is likely to underestimate the agonize of the disease. Thereupon, more effort is needed to improve the current interactive data, that is likely to have positive vibes on yaws eradication plan.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Avriyanti E. and Achdiat P. (2018). Yaws: Neglected and Abandoned? Time to Re-emerged.In Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD, ISBN 978-989-758-494-7, pages 245-248. DOI: 10.5220/0008154902450248

in Bibtex Style

@conference{rcd18,
author={Erda Avriyanti and Pati Aji Achdiat},
title={Yaws: Neglected and Abandoned? Time to Re-emerged},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD,},
year={2018},
pages={245-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008154902450248},
isbn={978-989-758-494-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD,
TI - Yaws: Neglected and Abandoned? Time to Re-emerged
SN - 978-989-758-494-7
AU - Avriyanti E.
AU - Achdiat P.
PY - 2018
SP - 245
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0008154902450248