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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

How community volunteers and smartphones revealed dangerous gaps in Zika knowledge.

By Alfonso Rosales, Senior Advisor for Maternal, Newborn & Child HealthIn May 2015, the first cases of Zika virus infection were confirmed in Brazil. In less than nine months more than 1.3 million people were infected, and the virus had spread through 41 countries and territories across Latin America and the Caribbean. This heralded an epidemic that is anticipated to last for at least another three years.

Zika survivor Bryon Carranza and his son, Andrew

How community volunteers and smartphones revealed dangerous gaps in Zika knowledge.

By Alfonso Rosales, Senior Advisor for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health In May 2015, the first cases of Zika virus infection were confirmed in Brazil. In...

The recovery of Byron

By Marcela Andino Byron Noel is an example of tenacity after suffering Guillain Barre, as a consequence of Zika. "Practically, I´ve come back to life and...

Zika Virus Response in Brazil

Recently, the World Vision Brazil staff had a preventive visit in Córrego do Jenipapo community, northen region, searching for information on the...