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Building Programs to Eradicate Toxoplasmosis Part IV: Understanding and Development of Public Health Strategies and
Mariangela Soberón Felín1, Kanix Wang2, Aliya Moreira3,4,5,6,7,8
1Toxoplasmosis Programs and Initiatives in Panama, Ciudad de Panama, Panama.
Purpose Of Review:
Review international efforts to build a global public health initiative focused on toxoplasmosis with spillover benefits to save lives, sight, cognition and motor function benefiting maternal and child health.
Recent Findings:
Multiple countries' efforts to eliminate toxoplasmosis demonstrate progress and context for this review and new work.
Summary:
Problems with potential solutions proposed include accessibility of accurate, inexpensive diagnostic testing, pre-natal screening and facilitating tools, missed and delayed neonatal diagnosis, restricted access, high costs, delays in obtaining medicines emergently, delayed insurance pre-approvals and high medicare copays taking considerable physician time and effort, harmful shortcuts being taken in methods to prepare medicines in settings where access is restricted, reluctance to perform ventriculoperitoneal shunts promptly when needed without recognition of potential benefit, access to resources for care, especially for marginalized populations, and limited use of recent advances in management of neurologic and retinal disease which can lead to good outcomes.
Supplementary Information:
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40124-022-00268-x.
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