Yaws is a poverty-related, infectious skin disease that affects mainly children below 15 years of age (with a peak between 6 and 10 years) in warm, rural, tropical areas in Africa, the Western Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia. About 75% of people affected by Yaws are children. It occurs in overcrowded communities, with limited access to basic amenities such as water and sanitation, and limited health care. It is said that “Yaws begins where the road ends”.