Regional Stories
The vaccine hurt a little," 8 year-old, Angel Fabian said, smiling with relief after receiving a booster dose of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. The boy, who lives in the neighborhood of San Juan in the Aguas Zarcas district, three hours from the capital, San Jos茅, was one the children reached by a vaccination campaign to prevent鈥
February 2024
In the remote community of Tekoh谩 Y' Apo, in the Department of Canindey煤, some 280 kilometers from Paraguay's capital, stands the Av谩 Guaran铆 ethnic group health post, a small pink wooden house with a tin roof. For years, medical care in the area was limited, but recently, thanks to an initiative led by the Pan American鈥
Do you know why it is so important to get your vaccines?鈥 Claudia asked her 10-year old son, Adil, who sat with her in the waiting room of the local health center in Rio Claro, Trinidad. 鈥淪o I can enter secondary school?鈥 he answered. 鈥淎nd why else, love?鈥 鈥淪o that if I ever get the virus, I won鈥檛 need to worry about getting sick. I鈥
In 2023, the Americas has seen the highest number of dengue cases in its history, with climate change being a potential contributor. Actions to reduce the population of mosquitoes that transmit the disease are essential to prevent and control dengue.
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November 2023
鈥淲hen I got malaria, my body felt warm from the inside out. At first, I thought it was something else but when, after five days, I found myself shivering with a high fever, that is when I went to see the community collaborator who was able to test and treat me,鈥 Se帽ora Emelida, a 52-year old, Indigenous woman from Rio Ca帽as, said.
Brasilia, 20 October 2023 - Nursing instructors from Guyana and five other Caribbean countries and territories participated in a training course in Brazil on clinical simulation, an educational methodology that recreates professional practice scenarios in a controlled, participatory, and interactive setting.
The training took place last September鈥
For food engineer Geovanna Amancha, ensuring that the food products consumed in Ecuador do not make people sick is a priority.鈥 August 2023 鈥擳hat is why, as part of the SORT IT research and training initiative, led by Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases of WHO, UNICEF, UNDP and the World Bank, with鈥
In October 2022, after a period of over three years with no newly confirmed cases, Haiti鈥檚 West Department experienced a resurgence of cholera, making it the epicenter of the outbreak. On February 6, 2023, an alert was issued by the D茅partement Sanitaire de l'Ouest (DSO) in response to a rapid increase in cases on La Gon芒ve, an island within the鈥