Regional Stories
With challenges finding jobs and limited access to health services, migrants tend to pay a high price for braving the COVID-19 crisis far from their home country. The situation of many Venezuelans living in Peru is an example of what’s going on all over the continent.
On July 14, Haiti received 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States through the COVAX Facility. The country is the fourth in the region to receive these donated shipments, after Honduras, El Salvador and Bolivia, with a total of 4,008,000 doses delivered so far.
Uruguay, July 2021 (PAHO) Before the coronavirus hit Uruguay, walking around with a face mask, not greeting others with a kiss, and not sharing one's tea (mate) was unthinkable. It was also rare to see a social club in a town in the interior part of the country turn into a vaccination station one morning and a freezer serve as a a desk.
In the…
18 June 2021 - Following decades of positive experience in forecasting and procuring vaccines and supplies from the Revolving Fund, The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) aligned with WHO and its partners to implement the COVAX Facility in the Americas. The COVID-19 pandemic represented an unprecedented challenge, and COVAX was the best way…
Riberalta, Beni ‒ Bolivia, 20 May 2021 (PAHO)- Brenda, Daniela, and Ingrid Chávez Casilima are three Bolivian sisters who were isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of the lockdowns in their home town. The arrival of vaccines has given the three sisters and their mother the hope of getting together again. Without giving it a second…
The Life in Traffic Project was born from an initiative of the World Health Organization and a group of international partners integrated into an initiative of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which began in five Brazilian cities in 2010, under the national coordination of the Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization in Brazil.