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Stigma, psychosocial and economic effects of yaws in the Philippines: an exploratory, qualitative study.
Abstract
Yaws is a chronic, non-venereal, highly contagious skin and bone infection affecting children living in impoverished, remote communities and caused by Treponema pallidum subspecie pertenue. Social stigma and economic losses due to yaws have been reported anecdotally in the Southern Philippines but have not been well-documented.