VIGILA EL CHAGAS

This application is the product of more than 20 years of community work on surveillance, prevention and control of Chigas disease in risk areas for vectorial transmission (by insects), with the aim of providing a simple methodology to simplify and massify the Basic knowledge at the community level about the vectors that transmit Chagas disease, already standardized and tested by the implementation of an epidemiological surveillance system based on community participation and the educational community identified as Triatomine Notification Posts (Benítez, et al; 2007). located in schools in at-risk communities.
Under this premise, the aim is to provide the population at risk and the general population with a tool that allows the Community Epidemiological Surveillance of Chagas disease (VECECh) to be promoted in a non-conventional, self-sustaining way that remains continuously available to people who need it or who want to contribute. to prevent vector transmission of this important public health problem, classified as an emerging disease, generally neglected by health authorities.