Regional Stories
Over the past two years, the Haitian government has intensified vaccination campaigns and epidemiological surveillance to combat vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) amid severe humanitarian and security challenges.— Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 2025 —
The country has renewed equipment at around 70 percent of its vaccination sites and acquired a cold storage chamber for José Martí International Airport, with support from PAHO and Canada.Havana, March 2025It’s Monday, and Nelisa Cecilia García is getting ready to take her 10-month-old daughter, María Elena, to the vaccination point in Habana…
Lima, 6 of March 2025Across Peru, particularly in the Amazon, three projects are reshaping the lives of thousands. These initiatives are seeking to eliminate neglected diseases such as trachoma, improve the health of women and adolescents, and guarantee equitable access to vaccination. Each effort converges on a singular goal: to improve the well-…
Marie-Lore, a 26-year-old mother of three, looks down at her children in despair. Her home in Delmas was burned to the ground by armed groups, forcing her to flee with nothing but a small bag. Her son was saved from the flames by a neighbor, but now, in a temporary shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with hundreds of other displaced families, she…
December 2024Forty-nine hours. When she told her story, Cecilia Hernandez could have rounded it off to 50, but she didn't. It took precisely 49 hours to travel from San Miguel de Tucumán, her hometown, to Rio Gallegos in southern Argentina. The journey of more than 3,000 kilometers not only allowed Cecilia to get to know new places, it also marked…
"Being an empowered woman means having confidence, strength, and the desire to succeed," explains Ericka, an Indigenous adolescent from the rural Kabebata High School in Alto Quetzal, a community located in a mountainous area four hours from the Costa Rican capital. In this region, where the Cabécar culture predominates – one of the eight…
November 2024"Death was present every minute, and people were lying around, infected with measles—especially children, the most defenseless—due to the lack of something as essential as vaccines," recalls nurse Julia Paredes López. At the age of 17, she was in a Mexican state locality called Loreto, in the state of Chihuahua, where she witnessed…
World Prematurity Day is celebrated every November 17th as a day to raise awareness of the challenges faced by premature babies and the critical need for quality neonatal care. In the context of this day, powerful stories emerge of families struggling to provide their premature children with the best possible care. PAHO emphasizes that quality…