Communicable Disease Prevention, Control, and Elimination

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Communicable Disease Prevention, Control, and Elimination promotes, coordinates, and implements technical cooperation activities directed toward the surveillance, prevention, control, elimination and/or reduction of communicable diseases, zoonoses that are technically sound and appropriate for the political and sociocultural context in which they are implemented. It strives to achieve a sustainable impact on health by providing normative guidance, furthering the implementation of evidence based interventions, fostering alliances that strengthen country capacity, improving the effectiveness of inter-country collaboration, and facilitating policy and decision-making processes.

 


Strategic Partners:  PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centres

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Elimination Initiative

PAHO seeks to end more than 30 communicable diseases and related conditions by 2030.

 

Trachoma Elimination Initiative
 

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Initiative for the Elimination of Trachoma in the Americas

Many countries in the Region of the Americas joins regional efforts to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem.

 

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Suriname: First Malaria-free Amazonian Country in the Americas
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Suriname: First Malaria-free Amazonian Country in the Americas
Let's Talk Heatlh. Health in the Prisons (In Spanish)
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Let's talk heatlh. Health in the Prisons (In Spanish)
Webinar: World Hand Hygiene Day 2025
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Webinar: World Hand Hygiene Day 2025
Dengue - Home care
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Dengue - Home care

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