| ACTO |
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization |
| AMPES |
American Region Planning and Evaluation System |
| BPB |
Biennial Program Budget |
| CAIMI |
Center for Comprehensive Maternal and Child Care |
| CARICOM |
Caribbean Community |
| Carisurvnet |
Caribbean Surveillance Network
|
| CCS |
Country Cooperation Strategy |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CEPIS |
Pan American Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences |
| CFNI |
Center for Food and Nutrition of the Caribbean |
| CICAD |
Inter-American Commission of Control of Drug Abuse |
| CICTE |
Inter-American Commission of Control of Terrorism and Crime
|
| CIDA |
Canadian International Development Agency |
| CIM |
Inter-American Commission of Women |
| CLAP |
Center for Perinatology and Human Development |
| COMISCA |
Andean Community of Nations and the Council of Central American Ministers of Health
|
| DOTS |
Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Term
|
| ECLAC |
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
| FLACSO |
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences |
| FOSIS |
Solidarity and Social Investment Fund |
| GFATM |
Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria |
| GTZ |
German Technical Cooperation Agency |
| HINARI |
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative |
| HIV/AIDS |
Human immunodeficiency virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
| IACHR |
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| ICTRP |
International Clinical Trials Registry Platform |
| IDB |
Inter-American Development Bank |
| IMCI |
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness |
| INCAP |
Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama |
| INPPAZ |
Pan American Institute for Food Protection and Zoonoses |
| JICA |
Japanese International Cooperation Agency |
| MCS |
Healthy Municipios and Communities |
| MDG |
Millennium Development Goals |
| MERCOSUR |
Southern Cone Common Market |
| OAS |
Organization of American States |
| OECS |
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States |
| ORAS-CONHU |
Andean Health Agency-Hipólito Unanue Agreement |
| PHC |
Primary health care |
| PRAT |
Atraumatic Restorative Treatment |
| RECACER |
Central American Network for Prevention and Control of Emerging and Reemerging Diseases |
| RESSCAD |
Health Sector Meeting for Central America and the Dominican Republic |
| SARA |
Strategic Assessment and Resource Alignment |
| SILAIS |
Local Health System |
| SIRG |
Summit Implementation Review Group |
| SIS |
Comprehensive Health Insurance |
| TCC |
Technical Cooperation among Countries |
| UNAIDS |
United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS |
| UNESCO |
United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization |
| UNFPA |
United Nations Population Fund |
| UNGASS |
Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on HIV/AIDS |
| UNICEF |
United Nations Children's Fund |
| UNIFEM |
United Nations Development Fund for Women |
| USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
| VHL |
Virtual Health Library |
| VWA |
Vaccination Week in the Americas |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
| WFP |
World Food Program |
