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Yaws: Training of health workers at national and districts levels on skin-NTDs
Photo credit: Camila G. Beiras/WHO
Course details
Year developed
2024
Language(s)
English, Spanish
Certification
Yes
Target audience
Target audiences
Health workers
Cross-cutting topic(s)
Disease(s)
About this course
In the context of integration of skin NTDs it is vital to learn to recognize a disease targeted for eradication. At the individual level yaws lesions may mimic other skin diseases. At the community level, it is key to know how to design and implement the total community treatment strategy and monitor its impact. This WHO course aims at providing health workers with the basic knowledge to understand the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, impact, eradication strategy and reporting of yaws.
This couse is also available in Indonesian Bahasa.
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Understand epidemiology of yaws at national and district level
- Describe the clinical aspects of yaws
- Understand how the diagnosis is made
- Explain what the global eradication strategy is
- List how the recording and reporting is done
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