Distribution of endemic treponematosis

World Health Organization region	Yaws	Bejel	Pinta
Africa	Benin (2020) Cameroon (2019) Central African Republic (2017) Congo (2016) Côte d'Ivoire (2020) Democratic Republic of Congo (2020) Ghana (2020) Liberia (2018)* Togo (2020)	Burkina Faso (1988) Mali (1999) Niger (1998) Senegal (2012)	None
Eastern Mediterranean	Unknown	Iraq (2012) Pakistan (2017) Saudi Arabia (1985) Syria (NA) Turkey (1995)	None
Americas	Last report was on the elimination of yaws from Ecuador in 2003	Cuba (2018)^¶	Brazil (1988) Colombia (1977) Mexico (1981) Panama (1988) Peru (NA) Venezuela (1992)
Asia^Δ	Indonesia (2020) Malaysia (2020)^◊ Timor Leste (2018)	Japan (2019)^¶	None
Western Pacific	Papua New Guinea (2020) Philippines (2017)* Solomon Islands (2019) Vanuatu (2020) Wallis and Futuna (2011)	None	None

Indicated in brackets is the year of the most recent published report from each country.

* The Philippines and Liberia confirmed cases of yaws in surveys in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
¶ Cuba and Japan confirmed local transmission of Treponema pallidum subsp endemicum in genital ulcer cases in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Δ India interrupted transmission in 2004 and declared elimination in 2006. Since 2004, no new cases have been reported. India was certified free of yaws by the World Health Organization in May 2016.
◊ Malaysia reported a case of yaws in a 5-year-old boy of aboriginal descent from the "Batek" tribe in 2020.

Data from: WHO Global Health Observatory: Endemic Treponematoses. Available at: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/number-of-suspected-cases-of-yaws-reported (Accessed on September 22, 2021).

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Distribution of endemic treponematosis