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Maria-Jesus Pinazo
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: International Health Department, ISGlobal, Barcelona Center for International Health Research, (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4237-1075
Jimy Pinto
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Fundación CEADES, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Lourdes Ortiz
Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Fundación CEADES, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Jareth Sánchez
Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Fundación CEADES, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Wilson García
Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Fundación CEADES, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Ruth Saravia
Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Fundación CEADES, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Mirko-R Cortez
Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Fundación CEADES, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Silvia Moriana
Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Chagas Disease Global Coalition, Barcelona, Spain
Enric Grau
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: International Health Department, ISGlobal, Barcelona Center for International Health Research, (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Daniel Lozano
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Fundación CEADES, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Joaquim Gascon
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: International Health Department, ISGlobal, Barcelona Center for International Health Research, (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Faustino Torrico
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Fundación CEADES, Cochabamba, BoliviaAbstract
Background
Bolivia has the highest prevalence of Chagas disease (CD) in the world (6.1%), with more than 607,186 people with Trypanosoma cruzi infection, most of them adults. In Bolivia CD has been declared a national priority. In 2009, the Chagas National Program (ChNP) had neither a protocol nor a clear...