Nearly all countries of Latin America and the Caribbean purchase vaccines and syringes through the PAHO fund, which helps assure quality, price and supply Washington, D.C., 26 April 2012 (PAHO/WHO) – The vast majority of vaccines being used in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 10th annual Vaccination Week in the Americas, 21 to … Read more →

Tegucigalpa, 25 April 2012 (PAHO) — Honduras launched its Vaccination Week on April 25 with Health Secretary, Dr. Arturo Bendaña, accompanied by Dr. Socorro Gross, Assistant Director of the Pan American Health Organization and Bill Gates (senior) on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The event took place during the tenth Vaccination Week … Read more →

Laredo, TX, April 24, 2012 (PAHO/WHO) – Cities and states along the U.S.-Mexico border will join countries throughout the hemisphere to celebrate the 10th annual Vaccination Week in the Americas and the first World Immunization Week on April 21 to 28, 2012. More than 365 million people of all ages have been vaccinated during the … Read more →

Marc Antoine Withney is the principal and main teacher at the Salen Mixed Instruction Center, an elementary school in one poorest neighborhoods of Port-of-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Like the small houses surrounding it, the school was severely affected by the January 2010 earthquake. But two years after the disaster, the 35-year-old Haitian was able–through his own … Read more →

The mayor of Mixco, Otto Pérez Leal, the President of the Republic of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, and the Representative of PAHO/WHO in Guatemala, Guadalupe Verdejo, during the opening ceremony of Vaccination Week in the Americas 2012 on April 20. Link to gallery of photos