Francisco das Chagas was sentenced to 20 years in jail for murdering 15-year-old Jonathan Silva Vieira.

BBC: Chagas will stand trial for other killings early next year

In addition the goal is to reduce and control these diseases: schistosomiasis, river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.

BBC: Plan to cut burden of tropical disease

The cause of Chagas disease is the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to humans from a bite from an insect known as the triatomine bug.

CNN: Chagas disease

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 300, 000 people in the United States, overwhelmingly immigrants, are infected with Chagas disease, caught from parasites that feed on the face and are usually found in Central and South America.

ECONOMIST: Infectious diseases are creeping in from abroad

As a group, PDPs like OneWorld Health, Medicines for Malaria Venture, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and the Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics target diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, Chagas, HIV and AIDS, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, a group of parasitic infections caused by worms.

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