:content {:text " an overwhelming majority of the patients are from endemic regions and that providers are familiar with screening for other infectious diseases in this population"},
:content {:text "many aspects of the US efforts to improve care for Chagas disease are similar to those in other non-endemic countries such as Spain or non-endemic regions within Latin America including urban areas"},
:content {:text "community health workers or patient care navigators ( promotores de salud) are one important element of successfully ensuring that patients traverse the entire continuum of care and are not lost to follow-up at the stage of evaluation or treatment"},
:content {:text " integrating Chagas efforts into the existing care infrastructure and operational procedures, such as including Chagas in newborn screening and prenatal care"},
:content {:text "Support efforts to strengthen and scale-up existing models of care in the US, through the use of Chagas disease trained patient-care navigators (promotoras), integration of disease-specific activities into both prenatal and primary care more broadly, and inclusion in efforts to improve the total health and well-being of affected communities."},
:content {:text "Explore the development of new centers of excellence for diagnosis and treatment in other areas of the US with large immigrant communities from Latin America (such as Chicago)"},
:content {:text "Seek avenues to advocate for policies that will enhance scalability of these efforts and improve care for populations with or at high risk of Chagas disease"},
:content {:text "Some unpublished research indicates that commercial tests may be missing more than half of infections acquired in southern Mexico. In addition, there is a pressing need to explore new technologies(e.g. CRISPR) that could facilitate diagnosis"},