Table 1.

Status of yaws endemic countries according to WHO, 2013

WHO region	Endemic (status known 2013)*	Previously endemic (status unknown 2013)	Total
African	8	32	40
Americas	1	27	28
Southeast Asia	2	9	11
Western Pacific	3	8	11
Total	14	76	90

Notes:

^*12 endemic countries: Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Togo, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu; two countries certified elimination: India, Ecuador. Adapted with permission from Global Health Observatory Data Repository: Yaws [webpage on the Internet]. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2013. Available from: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.NTDYAWS?lang=en.⁸