Regional Stories
Guatemala, July 2019 (PAHO/WHO) - When Dr. Ana Patricia Vélez (62) was diagnosed with hepatitis C more than 20 years ago, nucleic acid testing to diagnose the disease was not available in Guatemala and there was a major lack of awareness and painful stigma associated with its transmission. But Patricia, unlike many others, was able to…
May 19, 2019 - When Manuel Martinez Rosas – known as Lulo by his friends and family – was diagnosed with poliomyelitis at 3 years old, his mother´s greatest fear was that he would never live independently.…
During Vaccination Week in the Americas, a hospital in the city of Córdoba (central Argentina) opened its doors at night, offering a large number of families protection against various diseases.
A very special night, because they vaccinate children under two years old and Ezequiel, the grandmother and my husband go, because he is already 65 years old, which corresponds to the flu vaccination. It is a night that many people wait to go as a family, because many times due to time constraints they cannot go as a family and this is a night…
