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Elimination of Infectious Diseases from the South-East Asia Region

Keeping the Promise

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Editors:
  1. Poonam Khetrapal Singh

    1. South-East Asia Region, World Health Organization, Delhi, India

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  • Covers communicable disease elimination in the South Asia and South East Asia region
  • Talks about best practices in achieving elimination which could be the pathway for future elimination
  • Includes the major achievements of public health initiatives in the South Asia and South East Asia region

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. A Historic Paradigm Shift in Communicable Diseases in South-East Asia: From Control to Elimination

    • Poonam Khetrapal Singh
    Pages 1-12

  3. Thailand: Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis

    • Rangsima Lolekha, Usa Thisyakorn, Mukta Sharma
    Pages 13-23

  4. Yaws: Freeing Young Children in India from an Old Scourge

    • Sujeet Singh, S. K. Jain, Mohamed A. Jamsheed
    Pages 25-34

  5. The Maldives: A Long Battle to Banish Malaria

    • Mohamed Hameed, Hussain Habeeb, Zakiyya Hassan, Maimoona Aboobakuru, Arvind Mathur
    Pages 35-42

  6. Unburdening the Poor: Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in the Maldives

    • Hassan Samir, Nishan Mohamed, Sana Saleem, Tjandra Yoga Aditama
    Pages 43-51

  7. Sri Lanka: Long Battle to Eliminate Malaria

    • Kamini Mendis, Risintha Premaratne
    Pages 53-60

  8. Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in Sri Lanka: Overcoming the Odds

    • Sandhya Dilhani Samarasekera, Razia Pendse
    Pages 61-69

  9. Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Thailand: A Model for Best Practices

    • Suwich Thammapalo, Daniel Kertesz
    Pages 71-79

  10. Trachoma Elimination in Nepal: Bringing Light, Preventing Darkness

    • Mahendra P. Shrestha, Sailesh Kumar Mishra, Jos Vandelaer
    Pages 81-89

  11. Sri Lanka Marches Ahead and achieves Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis

    • Lilani Rajapaksa, K. A. M. Ariyaratne, B. B. Rewari
    Pages 91-103

  12. Leveraging Health System Gains Towards Eliminating Mother-to-Child Transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and Syphilis: How Maldives Became the Second Country in WHO South-East Asia Region to Achieve This Feat

    • Ibrahim Nishan Mohamed, Abdul Hameed, Abdulla Muaaz Adam, Shushil Dev Pant
    Pages 105-114

  13. Leprosy: Accelerating Towards a Leprosy-Free World

    • Vijaykumar Pannikar, Cita Rosita Sigit Prakoeswa, Erwin Cooreman
    Pages 115-126
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About this book

This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO’s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century.  The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases by 2030. In this context, this book is of high significance to countries from the SEA region and around the globe. It helps create national strategies and action plans on infectious disease elimination and thus attaining SDG 3.3.

This is an open access book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • South-East Asia Region, World Health Organization, Delhi, India

    Poonam Khetrapal Singh

About the editor

Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh was the first Indian elected Regional Director of WHO’s South-East Asia Region. She was also the first woman in the region to assume the office of WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia in February 2014. In September 2018, she was unanimously elected for a second five-year term by the 71st Regional Committee and 144th Session of the WHO Executive Board. Prior to Dr. Khetrapal Singh’s service as Regional Director of the WHO South-East Asia Region, for over two decades she was a civil servant in India as a member of the Indian Administrative Services (IAS). In 1987 she moved to the Health, Population and Nutrition Department of the World Bank and in 1998 she joined WHO headquarters, Geneva, as Executive Director, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments Cluster, and became a member of the Director-General’s Cabinet.


Dr. Khetrapal Singh has devoted more than three decades to strengthening public health as a leader and manager at national and international levels. Dr. Khetrapal Singh has vast experience in developing evidence-based, scientifically sound policy in complex state, national and international health systems due to her work in low resourced health systems, leading large multi-sectoral teams and collaborating with global partners and public health leaders. Dr Singh has a PhD in Public Health and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), of the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Elimination of Infectious Diseases from the South-East Asia Region

  • Book Subtitle: Keeping the Promise

  • Editors: Poonam Khetrapal Singh

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5566-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5565-4Published: 02 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5566-1Published: 01 April 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2192-3698

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 126

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Infectious Diseases, Development and Health, Demography

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