Disease Elimination Initiative - Stories
Throughout its 120 years of existence, PAHO has played a leading role in the response to epidemics in the region, including HIV/AIDS. Here are some of the important milestones, as well as the challenges that must be overcome to end AIDS.
El Salvador is the third country to have achieved malaria-free status in recent years in the WHO Region of the Americas, following Argentina in 2019 and Paraguay in 2018. Seven countries in the region were certified from 1962 to 1973. Globally, a total of 38 countries and territories have reached this milestone.
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Following the call from the WHO Director General in 2018, in August 2020, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for elimination of cervical cancer and adopting a strategy to make it happen.
The Global Strategy outlines the following threshold: we will have eliminated cervical cancer as a public health problem when all countries…
"This video was shot prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. (In Spanish, with English subtitles.)"
El Salvador is on its way to being certified malaria-free, having reached 3 years without local transmission.
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Health Topic: Malaria
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On September 28, each year, World Rabies Day (WRD) is held to promote the fight against this disease, raise awareness on prevention and celebrate the achievements made.
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Health Topic: Tuberculosis
Washington D.C. / Port au Prince. 23 January 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – The cholera outbreak in Haiti that began in October 2010, affecting over 820,000 people and killing 9,792, has been stopped in its tracks, with the country reaching 1-year free of confirmed cases this week.
The achievement follows concerted efforts from Haiti, the Pan…