Smoking in Papua New Guinea.

Yaws, an endemic treponematosis reconsidered in the HIV era

“…Despite the success of these campaigns, endemic loci remained in many parts of the developing world (6). Because of the absence of new coordinated antiyaws campaigns, it is not surprising that a resurgence of endemic treponematoses has been reported in western and central Africa, southeast Asia and the western Pacific (7)(8)(9)(10)(11). The results of a recent study on yaws in Indonesia suggest that a similar increase has occurred in other parts of the world (3).…”