- an overwhelming majority of the patients are from endemic regions and that providers are familiar with screening for other infectious diseases in this population
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- pre-established wellness labs through which Chagas screening could be conducted in all high-risk individuals
- effort to ensure all relatives of positive patients be screened
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- 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
- 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
- integrating Chagas efforts into the existing care infrastructure and operational procedures, such as including Chagas in newborn screening and prenatal care
- These activities create an opportunity to “end the neglect” for Chagas disease
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- 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.
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- 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)
- 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
