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More than 1.2 million people in the Americas die from cancer every year, including men, women and children. Thirty percent of them could escape this outcome by adopting a healthy life style. More than 250,000 people could prevent the disease by avoiding use of tobacco. Through vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) and screenings, 80,000 new cases could be prevented. Many types of cancer can  be cured if detected early and treated adequately. 

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In a Cite Soleil camp for displaced people in Haiti, health promoters along with community leaders distribute educational material on cholera prevention. Hygiene education and health promotion are relatively low cost and have been important elements in the response. Messages have gotten through and have been well internalized.

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Through their eyes, children transmit the strength and hope to continue to work for their health and that of their families. In Haiti, the cholera outbreak has affected nearly half a million people and claimed the lives of more than 6,600 in 2010 and 2011 shortly after the earthquake. Officials from the Pan American Health Organization, governments, organizations and institutions until this day work to mitigate the impact of the disease.