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 India
Indonesia
Timor-Leste
Yaws remains one of the most neglected tropical diseases
affecting primarily the poorest and most vulnerable population. It continues
to be a focalized problem affecting parts of only three countries (Indonesia, Timor Leste
and India)
in South East Asia Region. With availability of cost effective tools to
detect and cure the disease, the Region is planning or eradication of yaws by
2012. India
might be achieving yaws eradication earlier.
WHO launched the Global Yaws Control Programme in 1948, in
collaboration with UNICEF. At that point, more than
30 countries worldwide were endemic for yaws.
From 1950-1970, mass Penicillin treatment campaigns were
successfully implemented in most yaws endemic countries and prevalence of
endemic treponematoses, including yaws,
dramatically declined.
In 1970, surveillance phase was declared. In many
countries, the mobile teams which conducted yaws treatment campaigns were
dismantled and efforts made to incorporate yaws control into general health
services. Since then, yaws has
remained as a public health problem in a few pockets, including three countries in the SEA Region - India ,Indonesia and Timor-Leste
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