As the specialized health agency for the Americas and the Regional Office of the World Health Organization, PAHO is providing essential leadership, coordination and assistance to fight the spread of COVID-19, save lives, and protect the most vulnerable population groups—including health workers—in all 51 countries and territories of the Americas.
Latin America and the Caribbean need more vaccines now to save lives and prevent future waves. PAHO is working to make sure access to COVID-19 vaccines is guaranteed for every eligible person — regardless of their ethnicity, economic condition, gender, migratory status or whether they reside in a city or rural area — starting with the most vulnerable.
Your donation will help us raise the US$239 million needed* to support individual countries and territories in the region to scale up their readiness and response operations to fight the pandemic. Specifically, your donation will help us to:
Help countries and territories organize and prepare their health systems to cope with the rapid rise and resurgence of COVID-19 cases while maintaining other essential health services.
Share the latest scientific knowledge, epidemiological data and technical guidance with governments, health workers, and communities to guide public health actions.
Detect, track and slow the spread of COVID-19, by supporting countries’ surveillance, testing, contact tracing and laboratory capacity.
Support research and facilitate countries’ participation in genome sequencing and clinical trials of new medicines.
Send essential supplies, including personal protective equipment (PPE), to frontline health workers.
Deliver COVID-19 vaccines safely and effective where they are needed the most.
*Funding needed for the period January to December 2021.
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PAHO appreciates the donors who have provided funding to fight COVID-19 in the Region of the Americas. As of 21 June 2022, the Organization has received US$ 442,306,387M for urgent preparedness and response activities in response to COVID-19, including US$ 197,770,414M channeled through WHO.
PAHO thanks the following donors for their contributions.
Contributors to PAHO for Covid -19 response (as of 21 June 2022):
Alma Jean Henry Charitable Trust
30,000
Belize
11,221
Canada
39,942,575
Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
303,337
Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI)
1,455,061
Colombia
500,000
Confederation of Caribbean Credit Unions (CCCU)
75,000
Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF)
750,000
European Commission
10,896,562
Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics Initiative (FIND)
3,126,127
Ford Foundation
2,000,000
Foundation MAPFRE
52,358
Fundación Yamuni Tabush
34,975
GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance
1,430,276
Global Fund
1,972,680
Inter-American Development Bank
19,285,428
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
200,000
Japan
2,727,272
Korea
4,806,061
Mixed Fund for Technical and Scientific Cooperation Mexico-Spain
359,336
New Zealand
10,000
Other donors
50,000
PAHO COVID-19 Response Fund
95,326
Rockefeller Foundation
3,000,000
Sony Latin Music
87,316
Spain
1,107,000
Sweden
10,554
Switzerland
1,040,143
UN Agencies consortium
311,496
UNDCO
5,000
UNDP
2,711,069
UNICEF
1,435,637
United Kingdom
3,842,512
United States of America
126,111,940
UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund
2,917,160
UNOSSC
2,910,593
UNRCO
2,000
WHO Foundation
83,561
World Bank
4,982,365
World Food Programme
3,864,032
Donations channeled through WHO
197,770,414
PAHO also thanks to the following donors who have contributed to the response efforts in the Americas through WHO: Azerbaijan, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Canada, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, Germany, France, the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Spain, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and the World Bank.
In addition, the following donors have pledged further support to PAHO: Canada, Switzerland, UNDP, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
PAHO would like to also acknowledge and thank Direct Relief, Facebook, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and Twitter for their generous in-kind contribution as well as Allison Becker, Salomon Beda, Sony Latin Music and Global Citizens for their strategic partnership to help fight the pandemic.