The Chagas Coalition

The Coalition’s mission is to increase awareness of Chagas disease through greater political commitment on the part of policy makers in the affected countries and to call for greater access to treatment for patients and a commitment to provide the funds needed to finance interventions (including treatment programmes) and research and development of new tools and drugs.

The Global Chagas Coalition objective is to promote access to diagnosis and treatment for patients with Chagas disease and to stimulate innovation and encourage global efforts to develop new tools to fight the disease.

This objective will be achieved by pursuing three more specific objectives related to Chagas disease:

1. Accelerate access to treatment and prevention in affected countries
2. Increase in global funding for screening, diagnostic and treatment programmes;
3. Increase the contributions supporting R&D programmes.