WHO calls for collaborative efforts to prevent, control and care for Chagas disease [SOUND]

# Today marks World Chagas Disease Day, focusing on the theme ‘Prevent, Control, Care: Everyone’s Role in Chagas Disease.’ Chagas disease, often termed the silenced disease, affects approximately seven-million people globally, with over ten-thousand people dying annually. The World Health Organisation’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, emphasised the importance of early detection and treatment of this tropical disease to prevent severe cardiac and digestive complications: