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Development of surveillance and health care actions for leprosy in the territory of action of ACS and ACE, in municipalities in southwest Bahia, in 2019-2020.
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ACS (n = 94; 87.7%) and a small proportion of ACE (n = 1; 3.6%), there was a report of carrying out educational activities on leprosy in the community. Access to specific educational material on the disease was more common among ACSs (n = 63; 58.9%) than among ACEs (n = 11; 39.3%) (Figure 1).
Development of surveillance and health care actions for Chagas disease in the territory of action of ACS and ACE, in municipalities in southwest Bahia, in 2019-2020.
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On the other hand, the development of educational activities carried out by ACS (n = 50; 46.7%) is lower than for ACEs (n = 18; 64.3%), as well as access to specific educational material, with proportion of 67.3% (n = 72) among ACSs and 85.7% (n = 24) among ACEs, as shown in Figure 2.
Answers of ACS and ACE to the question "How to recognize a person suspected of leprosy", municipalities in the southwest of Bahia, 2019-2020.
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 Figure 3 presents a synthesis of ideas that emerged during this moment of the workshop in response to the question: How to recognize a person who may have leprosy or DC? To answer the question, the participants were encouraged to choose a word or term that would answer the question.
Answers of ACS and ACE to the question "How to recognize a person suspected of having Chagas disease", municipalities in southwest Bahia, 2019-2020.
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For Chagas disease, the negative "I don't know" was the most repeated answer (17 times), followed by "shortness of breath" (13 times) and "tiredness" (nine times) (Figure 4).