Making Peace: Next Steps in Colombia

After a brief history of the longest-running insurgency in the Western Hemisphere, this article contextualizes recent developments in the transition of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to legal politics in Colombia. The authors also provide policy recommendations for the US Department of Defense

Estimated Numbers of Persons Infected with Neurocysticercosis or Epilepsy due to Neurocysticercosis by Region.

a<p>See text for methods used to derive these estimates.</p>b<p>Assumes that 10% of those seropositive to <i>T. solium</i> have epilepsy. (Extraction of data from manuscripts summarized in references <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001500#pntd.0001500-Montano1" target="_blank">[7]</a>, <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001500#pntd.0001500-Bern1" target="_blank">[11]</a>, <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001500#pntd.0001500-Flisser1" target="_blank">[31]</a>). Seizure rates in populations seropositive to <i>T. solium</i> were greater than in seronegative populations by approximately 9.4% (range 1.7–31.3%). Therefore, we assumed 10% of seizures were attributable to NCC in Chinese seropositive populations.</p>c<p>Assuming 1/3 of the SSA population of 560 million at risk.</p